Yi people's religion has a strong primitive religious color, and they believe in many gods, mainly including nature worship, totem worship and ancestor worship.
In the worship of nature, the most important thing is the belief in elves and ghosts. It is believed that many inanimate substances in nature are attached to elves, everything left by the ancestors of a family, such as clothes, jewelry, silverware, utensils and so on. , you can attach the elf "Jill" (meaning "blessing"), which is considered to have the magic power to protect the family. In addition, it personifies natural things and worships various natural gods. It is believed that there is a god in the sky, a god on the ground, a god in the sun, and a god dominates all mountains, rivers and lightning. For example, in Le Auteuil, Yao Butterfly and other gods were created to create the universe and dominate everything in the universe. ?
Totem worship is the development and deepening of nature worship. According to the genealogy of Yi people, animals, plants or other natural objects are often used as surnames. For example, Liangshan Yi people have surnames such as "pulling (tiger) horse", "jima (bamboo)" and "cutting (carving)"; Until the 1940s, the Yi people in Wuding, Yunnan Province still retained the remains of the totem system such as monkeys, tigers, dragons, roes, rats, cows, buffaloes, birds, phoenixes, snakes, bees, pears, black sand, light, earth, mountains, forks in the road and hip flask. ?
Before liberation, the Yi people in Liangshan took ancestor worship as the core.
It combines nature worship, ghost worship and totem worship. Around these beliefs, we often carry out activities such as killing animals and offering sacrifices to ghosts, praying for disaster relief, evoking spirits and sending them away, as well as divination, divination and taboo. Yi people believe in ghosts,
There is a concept of "immortality of the soul", which holds that the human soul can exist without the human body. The soul is possessed at birth and wanders around the world after death. The Yi language is "Ira". "Immortality of soul" provides an ideological basis for ancestor worship of Yi people.
In the whole religious consciousness of Yi people, ancestor worship occupies an important position. The ancestor worship of the Yi people is characterized by "Ma Du Guo" ("An Ling") and "Kubi" ("Seeing the Spirit off") to their parents. In this ceremony, the soul of the deceased was asked to be "Jill".
In order to protect future generations from becoming "Nizi" worshipping future generations, it is necessary to conduct a ceremony of requiem for the deceased, and ask Bimo to make a spiritual tablet (Madu) to prevent the souls of the deceased from wandering around. After the death of the previous generation (immediate family member), please ask Bimo to perform "pinch" (crossing ceremony).
Send the soul away and let it live leisurely in the place where its ancestors first lived. In addition, we should worship our ancestors first and bring them back for the holidays. ?