Chapter 20 The second part of Xinjiang Qapqal Xibe folklore-10

Shamanism is superstition, government officials say so, school children say so, and relatives and friends say so.Some shamans who believe in shamanism feel a deep pressure between belief and reality.They are contradictory, struggling, and choosing.These struggles come from the depths of their spirit. It is not easy to get the answer, and it seems much simpler to take some behavioral countermeasures. Some people say that she is the same as Wu Niulu's Jiu Mei.Jiumei, female, 43 years old.She took over the same position from 1974, when she was 22 years old.The ancestors of her natal family were the same, and the ancestors of her husband's family were shamans. In 1976, her family made shaman pictures.She has a medical history of more than ten years. The main symptoms are deformed fingers and unable to walk on her legs.When I got sick, I went to Yili and Urumqi, but I couldn't get cured.Later, I found the same one recorded by Sanniu and read it. I watched it twice, but it didn't work.An old lady in the county said, unless you are sincere, you will not get better from this disease.Jiumei said: "I knelt on the ground and cried, begging her for help. The old lady said, 'You should be the same, if you don't pick it up, it will be fine. Yes, it’s because I haven’t seen a doctor yet. Later, when someone came to see a doctor, I knew what the disease was. As soon as I treated someone else’s disease, my hand recovered. Later, the child grew up and went to high school The child asked me: 'Mom, why are you doing this.' When he said that, I didn't want to do it anymore." She said to us: "Don't come here anymore, I don't do it anymore." We see, Jiumei's shamanic tablet and the same tablet are still enshrined.When I offered to take her picture, she didn't agree, but it was ok to take pictures with me.So, the two of us took a photo together.

We also interviewed the new shaman xxx, female, 47 years old, in the county seat.She didn't want to let everyone know that she was a shaman, so she had to withhold her name.She took Shaman in 1985.On April 18th of the lunar calendar this year, she was seriously ill. At that time, she suddenly fell into a coma. Once she passed out, she didn't know anything.She was taken to the hospital, but the cause could not be diagnosed.Sober after a week in the hospital.This was repeated several times, and the condition became more and more serious, so I went to Urumqi to see it again.The hospital did EEG and CT examinations, and the results were normal.Later, I had no choice but to find the Qinghua shaman and ask her to come and see.Qinghua said: You are pure in flesh and blood, so you should be adopted by a shaman.There used to be a shaman seat in your home, so you should offer it up.

The ceremony was held in secret, and the Qinghua shaman tied a red belt for me.After the ceremony, I have not been ill, and my illness will be fine without being checked.Although I accepted the godship, I did not do this (referring to seeing a doctor). My family members are always sick. The child’s nose bleeds for three or four days, and it can’t be stopped. I am very anxious because my child can’t get good grades in the college entrance examination. I had no choice but to go this way. Before seeing a doctor, I dreamed every day, and I kept them in my heart one by one.When treating a disease, I can also get information when something happens.It seems to give you a question, not a straightforward dream, but a little hint.If it's straightforward, it's no headache.If you can't solve it, you can't cure the disease.Sometimes I can't solve it by myself, so I ask Qinghua for help.

In the past, the people who took care of the shaman and the people who took Erqi were all low-educated people, and they couldn't write down the process of healing.In addition to what my master taught me, I can read other books.The old experience can't solve the new disease now, and the new problem can only be solved by oneself.Now I feel that there is no end to learning this thing. After accepting this, no matter who's heart is, it will be kind and not evil.The task entrusted to us is to do good to others and not to do evil.In our opinion, unless you didn't do it, as long as you do evil things, you can see it, even what your ancestors did that shouldn't be done.

I have been treated for a short period of time, so I dare not say whether there is any obvious effect.If the patient cannot be cured, his illness will worsen, and my illness will also worsen. Tell the cause, and my illness will be cured.After diagnosing the patient, tell the patient what to worship and what to do.Three days later, the patient recovered, but this was temporary, and rituals were needed, otherwise he would commit another crime. A girl in Wuniulu was in the third grade of junior high school. She vomited as soon as she ate, and she went to see a doctor and took medicine for a long time, but it was not good.That's how it came to me.Before they came, I was very ill, lying on the kang and unable to get up.What I see turns out to be two problems.Her grandparents have a more capable one; the other is someone else's fox fairy who moved to her house, which is not what her family should have.After the etiological diagnosis, I was in good health.Girls were also very relaxed back then.When their family was in the Northeast, there was a fox fairy god, and now it has developed a lot, big and small, old and young.Then they did both.During the sacrifice, two white chickens were offered, but when the sacrifice was received, the gods refused to accept it, and it took a lot of effort to accept it.They should serve whole sheep.They don't accept it because they have big gods and so many families, so they don't accept it.

When seeing a doctor, the other party has to cooperate, half-belief, or insincerity will not be good.My grandparents were shamans and had tori, but not anymore.I cut decibels for treatment, cut them into human shapes, burned them, and let patients drink them. This newcomer who has just stepped into the shaman field told us that she has been very careful not to let more people know her identity, especially her colleagues and leaders in her unit.The shadow of disgrace has always been with her. She hopes that one day her family and her body can get better, and she hopes that she can live freely.

The contradiction between belief and reality is also manifested in the patients healed by shamans.Although some patients have seen a shaman, they succumbed to family arrangements or traditional practices, and they did not think that their illness was cured by the shaman. Guan Yuling of Qiniulu said that the shaman was not effective in curing diseases, and his illness was cured by traditional Chinese medicine. Guan Yuling, male, 40 years old. In 1967 or 1968, when I was playing court, I was very tired, so I went down to the river to take a bath.In the middle of the night, I suddenly had a fever and chills, and I couldn't control myself.At that time, I went to the county hospital to see it.The doctor gave me an injection and medicine, and it got better.But during the day, I feel sluggish and groggy.Some people say, find a shaman to see it.Zheng Hua, who found Wuniulu at home, also performed the ceremony.After a week, my illness is still not cured.The parents invited another female shaman from Wuniulu, but she was not cured either. 5 There is an old Chinese doctor named Guo in Niulu, we went to see him.The old Chinese doctor diagnosed that it was not a serious illness, but a little irritation.The doctor advised me to take a good rest and not to be mentally burdened.After he said that, I immediately felt relieved.He prescribed 9 decoctions, and he recovered after eating.Later, he took 6 more decoctions, and he recovered from his illness.Although I asked shamans and the same to treat the disease, I felt that it was useless. I was treated by an old Chinese doctor and gradually recovered. In 1971 and 1973, I was stimulated again, and the disease relapsed a little. Some people said I was crazy, but then I recovered.Through the efforts of my father and brother, I got engaged in 1973 and married in 1975.I'm all right now.

Walter Qinghua from the county seat said that in the 1970s, when the policies were tight, many people still came to see me for medical treatment, including eight Niulu.There was a Communist Party member who was supposed to be a shaman, but he didn't pick up this.He couldn't see it before, so he asked me to see it.I said, you should be a shaman, and he said, there is no way to pick it up.But I said, this will be punished, but he still didn't accept it.After a few years, he became blind and could not work in the fields.I couldn't bear it and cured him.After he was cured, I advised him to become a shaman, but now he still doesn't answer, but his eyes are already healed.