Chapter 21 The second part of Xinjiang Qapqal Xibe folklore-11

During the investigation, we found that several new shamans have appeared among the Xibe ethnic group in recent years. The general public has a very strong opinion about them, thinking that they are cheating people and money; the old shamans think that they do not follow the rules. , If you don't understand technology, you won't be able to do it in the long run.And they themselves are trying to say that they are traditional, capable, and authoritative.In order to prove themselves, they cooperated with our interview very much, and at the same time led us to interview their patients to prove that what they said was true.

Shamans in the county "cohabitate" An Chengjiu, who claims to have just become a shaman, is a very special case.Zhao Shuzhen and An Chengjiu both said that they have shamans.An Chengjiu, male, worker, 38 years old.Zhao Shuzhen, female, 35 years old. (57) Zhao Shuzhen went out to see a doctor that night. An Chengjiu said that Zhao Shuzhen told him before leaving that she dreamed that a guest from afar was coming, and the appearance of the guest she described was obviously me.In her dream, I had a scythe in my hand and she had one too.Both of us are holding each other, and neither will let the other go.She wanted to put it down, but the handle of the sickle couldn't let go of her arm.As soon as I walked in, An Chengjiu said, I knew you would come.

According to An Chengjiu, he had a sign five years ago, he was sick, but he did not perform the ceremony.The sacrificial offerings only started on August 15th last year.Now he doesn't do any medical treatment, and his wife does it all.On the one hand, I still need to go to work, on the other hand, many people don't understand. He said that he learned shamanism in a dream. "After waking up, some of the things in the dream can be explained, and some can't. It’s hard to understand. When we sleep, if we don’t wake up, neither will call the other. If we wake up, the dream will not come true, and people will feel very uncomfortable. I still have three years to mature. I have 7 masters, all wearing Ancient clothing."

"For example, I felt leg pain in my dream tonight, and the person who came the next day must have leg pain. No matter how uncomfortable that person is, we feel how uncomfortable in the dream. Sometimes, these symptoms do not directly correspond to our body, but Take other methods, as long as you untie it, you can be cured. If you can’t untie it, you can ask the gods for advice. If you get the omen, you will be clear. The method of illness is different. We need white paper, wine, and incense. When seeing a doctor, bring these three things. After lighting the incense, we offer offerings. Without a god, we cannot see the illness. Then we can see the situation in the previous life with the paper, and the eyes are very Clean people can see this too."

An Chengjiu said that after receiving the shaman last year, his body is much better now, he has gained weight and feels much better.I got sick again in June this year.As a shaman, I should treat diseases, but now I have to work, so I can't do it.My illness may have something to do with it.I made offerings to the gods again and bathed in seven kinds of flowers, and it was much better in the future.We learned shaman tunes and drum beats in our dreams, and the teacher taught them very clearly.Sometimes if you don't get a good night's rest, you forget half of it when you wake up. An Chengjiu also knew some knowledge about shamanism. He introduced that some family gods were brought from the northeast, and he had to invite such gods to become a shaman.Mother Yisanzhu is the highest god in the shaman yard.

When seeing a doctor, the attitude of the patient's family is very important.If you believe in it, the disease will be better.After we read it and follow the instructions, we will get better quickly, but those who don’t believe it will be serious.A patient had a headache and could not move.We revealed his cause, that is, he went to a place where he could not go and a dirty place, such as a place where a child was born or a dead person was not allowed to go, and he violated this rule.But he didn't believe it, and the illness recurred again.He was very sick, and for us, sicker too.Our goal is to completely cure the disease.A shaman cannot do evil or bad things, but can only do good things, otherwise he is punishing himself.

Finding the cause is like diagnosing it. If the analysis is correct, you will be cured within three days of treatment without a ceremony;In the process of seeing a doctor, there are good and bad things to say.Some of them came to see us during the Chinese New Year after they recovered from their illnesses.There is a girl in Wuniulu who is in her 20s. We cured her and she can work in the fields now. The first patient we cured was a girl in college.She suddenly lost her eyesight at school. The school couldn't cure her, so she went to Urumqi for treatment. Later, she came back because of her family's financial difficulties.Her mother was very religious at the time, and we performed three rituals for her, and now her eyesight is restored, and she is back at school.Come back to see us this summer.

If someone has a chronic disease for ten or twenty years, it is not easy to cure, so it is not cured.It is very difficult to treat this kind of disease. On the one hand, the patient has been sick for a long time, and we are physically tired after treatment.Others looked at us as if we were fine, but in fact we were in trouble at that time.Now I have to rest for three days once I see a patient.But there are too many patients, almost every morning and afternoon to see two, more patients in winter. Gu Yinglin, who accompanied us from the County Chronicle Office, was their relative and introduced some information about Zhao Shuzhen and An Chengjiu.He said that the couple used to be often sick. When they first got sick, they said that they saw the soul-calling banner as soon as they went out.After taking the shaman, everything is fine now.They have been shamans for more than a year, and have performed different rituals according to various diseases.Their master may be a woman, and it is said that this woman comes to teach while sleeping.The woman who taught them was the ancestor of their family and died on the way to the west. People brought her body here and buried her here.They saw the three words "cohabitation" in their dreams, but they didn't know Chinese characters and didn't know them, so they traced these three words and asked me what my name was and what it meant.Now their house is called "Co-living".

An Chengjiu said that the first ceremony was held by Yuxian for them, but he got the god's position wrong.Later, I asked Yong Fuqing to do it again. Although it was a little better, it was not enough.In the end, I got enlightenment from my master in my dream, and I performed a ceremony for myself.The ceremony in the morning is easy in the afternoon.In this way, we do three white goat offering ceremonies a year. An Chengjiu said that there was a Xibo man in Huocheng who had been insane for almost 8 years.He killed the fox fairy while watering the field, so he got this disease.We treat on a case-by-case basis.After the ceremony, he can meet people and do some housework.There are also some neurotic patients that we cannot cure.What they bring is more powerful than ours, and our abilities cannot suppress it.If he doesn't get better after treatment, neither can we.If you can't hold it down, we won't cure it.If it is ruled out, we will become lunatics too.

There are many animals that cause mental illness, mainly fox spirits, and there are fox spirits that have been around for thousands of years or hundreds of years.The fox fairy is divided into the fairy family and the fox family, and the wild one is the fox family.Xianjia is the god who protects the family. If you treat it well, it will also reward people.Otherwise, even how much money the family has can't keep it.It is said in the past that if we serve wine to the fairy family, there will be less wine in the cup.Xianjia slept on the ground when he was drunk, and people would see him.Fox fairies that have been around for thousands of years can take human form, but those that have been hundreds of years old cannot.The fox fairy can also become a midwife.

It is Xijia who communicates between Yin and Yang.The ghosts of the dead make a lot of trouble, but the living don't do such things.In this way, you have to burn paper money for him, and if you send the money to the wrong place, you have to do it repeatedly, or he will make trouble.If he didn't receive it, he would dream at night that he didn't receive the burnt paper. Two good friends, one of them passed away, and the one who survived was always made sick by him.The man said, we are friends, why does he always come to trouble me.In fact, you can find whoever you have the best relationship with. When the undeserving person dies, his soul becomes a wandering spirit.People who become wandering spirits often seek out family members.Family members should burn incense and burn paper on time.When burning paper, some should also be given to the land master. Without it, wandering souls will not be able to receive it. In fact, we ourselves are also people who connect the two realms of yin and yang. It stands to reason that shaman statues should always be hung on the west wall. However, the "Cultural Revolution" destroyed the influence of the Four Olds. Those who kept the relics forgot how to do it, so the things at home might be lost.Generally, what should be hung up can be taken back after a ceremony.Now, not many people have these things. Tori is from the shaman field.There are two kinds of tori, one is male tori and the other is female tori.Yongfuqing's Tori is handed down.Because there is a shaman handed down in his family, things can be passed down.The things passed down by that generation of shamans can be his divine tools. A shaman can only be considered a shaman on the knife ladder.The difference in the height of the knife ladder indicates the level of the shaman's ability.Going up to a really high place, Tori can fly over from the shaman mandala.The fighting method of the two shamans is that Tori is fighting, and Tori flies through the glass, and the glass cannot be broken.When we saw a doctor once, we found that a shaman came to fight. We were too exhausted at that time, and we were a little unclear about the situation at that time. There was a patient who was hospitalized in Yining Hospital when he came to us.He stays up every night and walks around.The hospital didn't like it, so we gave it to him.Now he is in good health and looks good, and he can already drive a cart to pull wheat.It is said that their family has Tori and statues of gods. We once had Mama Deji, the Lonely Mama.It is not an easy task to invite Deji's mother down. This is not something that ordinary shamans can do.If you can invite Deji's mother, you can invite all the shamans in the shaman mandala, and no one can harm him.Invite her to be a mature shaman.Yi Sanzhu is the manager of the shaman mandala. When seeing a doctor, Yi Sanzhu's mother is the first to be invited. It stands to reason that the shaman will not be able to cure diseases for the next three years, because he has not learned it yet.But there is no way now, we study every day and see a doctor every day.Generally, after the age of sixty, the shaman's skill declines, and the healing effect will not be very good.