Chapter 22 The second part of Xinjiang Chabuchar Xibe folklore-12

Zhao Shuzhen, who was listening to her husband's speech, began to talk about her own affairs after An Chengjiu stopped talking for a long time.She agrees with her husband: We are horse-riding shamans, and our strength is currently the second among Xibe shamans, and the number one has not yet come out.Therefore, we cannot eat offal, hooves, and heads of sheep. Zhao Shuzhen is very confident. She said: "I can receive information from people who come to me. I knew about it 2-3 days ago. The appearance I predicted was exactly the same as when we met. What I saw in my dream was the main person. , the accompanying person can’t see clearly.” She said that she had already received the information that we were coming to her house, and she knew what I looked like.

She said, "I have never been in contact with shamans and Erqi before. After I was in poor health, I studied in my dreams at night, and gradually learned about them. There are many systems there, and many things cannot be said. When we do things, we can only talk about them. , what ceremony to do, what kind of paper to burn, etc. It is reasonable to learn to treat diseases after three years. Now when some people come to them, they see that some diseases can be cured; some family members are pious, and it is easy to cure them. .The current cure rate is 60% to 70%. I have cured many people, you can go and find out.”

"I didn't become a shaman to increase my income. I did it completely according to my master's orders. Many people don't understand. In fact, I work in the forest management station and earn 10,000 yuan a year. When I went to see a doctor in Huocheng, the patient's family was very special. Poor, he gave me 15 yuan before leaving, and I returned the 15 yuan. It is also for the treatment of this disease. Some Taoist priests asked for 200 yuan and took away a cow. I cured many diseases in Huocheng. I respect that." "I got a shaman. My father didn't believe it. Whenever I did this kind of thing, my father scolded me. Later, my father became very ill, had a heart attack, and was often hospitalized. My brothers and sisters asked me to see a doctor for my father. When he saw the doctor, he was the father in name , daughter, is actually a shaman mother and a patient. After reading it, my father is much better and has not been hospitalized for more than a year. Sometimes I do things wrong, and my father also gets sick. If I don’t do it then, my father’s illness will get worse.”

"We mainly communicate with the heavens and the underworld. When we send it to the sky and when we send it to the underground, there is a fixed date, so we are more capable. On the surface, we talk about how to do it, but in fact we give it to what Make a wish, do whatever you want. When treating illnesses, I sometimes go up and sometimes go down." "At the beginning, Chengjiu took care of the shaman. He had a shaman in his family. I thought that I could liberate him as soon as I became a shaman, but it didn't work. He still had to do it." "Those who were in our profession have seen that we are better than them, so they never gave us a ceremony. We said, we will worship you as teachers after we come out, so we did it. But the position of the god is wrong. We see a doctor. Please don’t come to the gods. Later we re-established the gods, and now it’s better. There are also some tempting and jealous people who come to make trouble, and they generally tolerate it. If there are too many people, the master also allows one or two of them to take punitive measures. "

"According to common sense, the skills of shamans in their sixties and seventies will gradually decline. On the surface, it seems to be slowly disappearing, but in fact it is slowly withdrawing. The old ones are no longer good. The master instructed to train people aged 25 to 37. When I was studying, my master said that I should do good things for mankind. Now I am wholeheartedly fulfilling my mission. I know that I can teach a class of students. These people’s skills are not high. They are Buddhist shamans. But it’s not just anyone. They can all be my students. I know who the students are. Some people don’t have time. When the time comes, he will come to me. For example, if he gets sick, I will heal him. My students will get omens and dreams. After getting the information If you don’t ask me to find someone else, his illness will not be cured. We can only choose people with signs. The task assigned to us by the master is very heavy. I have only studied for a year, and now people who are more qualified than me come to me Seeing a doctor shows that I am very important."

Zhao Shuzhen went on to explain some shamanistic principles: those who hanged themselves have dirty souls; those who die violently (abnormally) will not be accepted there, and become wandering spirits with no destination and no reincarnation, always looking for this or that to make trouble.This wandering spirit attaches itself to a normal person and takes this person's place in his place, and then he can go to the underworld.Three years after people like us die, they are received in the shamanic mandala. "I just took over the position of god. I don't know how much I can do, but there is one thing that explains the problem. When I took over the god, it is logical that all the brothers and sisters of my husband's family should come. But the two sister-in-laws didn't come until dark. Come, finish and leave. When I was meditating like this, I blushed and scolded them thickly. At night, the old-fashioned cabinet at my sister-in-law’s house fell down, and my sister-in-law was very scared. Only then did they know how powerful I am. Later, I gave land The Lord made an offering to see if they would come, but the two sister-in-laws all came."

"In the past, there were many female shamans. Later, due to women's menstrual inconvenience every month, they transferred to male shamans. But male shamans drink too much and break many precepts, so they transfer to females." Zhao Shuzhen said that her 13-year-old second son had symptoms since he was a child and was often in a coma.By asking the god to know that he will be more powerful than us in the future.Once when I was seeing a doctor for others, I was a little nervous. The child said, Mom, you are scared.With the help of my children, I made it.Once a child told me: "Mom, someone brought eggs today." I didn't believe it.The child has gone to school.After a while, two female colleagues from the forest management station brought eggs and asked me to do something.

By the end of the interview, it was almost midnight.At our request, Zhao Shuzhen lit incense, knelt down in front of the shaman's altar, and performed a ceremony of inviting the gods.she sang: The golden incense burns, Golden candles are lit. Asked for six baksh (she pronounced six names), Request three shamans (Zhacheng shaman, Decheng shaman, Isanju shaman) I invite you to come down. Then, Zhao Shuzhen said something in a low voice, which was difficult for us to hear.Finally, I sang a shaman song with amplified voice, but I couldn't understand the lyrics.When we were seeing off, Zhao Shuzhen told me that if we found a good shaman song, please tell her.