Ethnic Religion and Belief

The Confucianism is established by Confucius, and it has controled the superstructure and its ideology in the Chinese feudal social for a long time. Also, some people consider it...

A Ceremony to Celebrate the Harvest Gaoshan people have a lot of festivals. However, Gaoshan ethic group also worships spirit, which is thought to flood in everything in the...

The totemism is one of the extremely old and peculiar culture phenomena in the human history. Nearly all the nationalities in China, including ancient nationalities that have already withered...

The Mongols have many traditional ceremonies in offering sacrifices, such as offering sacrifices to Heaven, to Fire, to Ancestors and to Aobao etc., among which offering sacrifices to Aobao...

Shamanism is one of the terminal forms of primal religions. It came into being in the evening of the primitive society. It was called Shamanism because the sorcerers of...

Family tree, also called pedigree or chart, is a book for every family, which recorded the headstream, the descent and the stories of important persons of this family. For...

Historical Background of Islam in China Islam was established in the Arabian Peninsula in the 7th century and subsequently spread to China through the immigration of aboriginal guests. Throughout...

Unique Formation of the Hui Ethnic Group The Hui nationality has a distinctive origin that sets it apart from other ethnic groups in China. Its formation is characterized by...

“Dongba” is from Naxi language, which means “the wise” and refers to wizard and sorcerer. Dongba culture can’t depart from Dongba religion. The Dongba religion was developed at the...

In the Qiang’s religious belief in the past, natural worship was much outstanding, and the Qiangs believed in “animism”. Until now, some belief is still left over in the...