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What is Shamanic Civilization

Shamanism (French: Chamanisme), which is generally regarded as a lower level of civilization and a religious belief civilization in the transition from polytheism to monotheism, can still be found all over the world today, moving between the heavens and the earth, crossing the multidimensional dimension, and is destined to be with the people of the earth for a long time.

Some people believe that the word "Shaman" originates from the Tungus language of the Heilongjiang Valley in China, meaning "one who dances wildly with excitement", which is a state of mediumship in which gods and demons are possessed, and it is still alive in the northeast of China in the Manchurians, Hezhe, Oroqen, Mongols, and the Tibetans, as well as in northeastern and northwestern Siberia, the Indians of the Americas, and the Arctic Circle Eskimos, and so on and so forth.

The deceased quality potato people? Archaeological anthropologist Zhang Guangzhi insisted that the ancient Chinese civilization was basically a shamanic civilization (6 Lectures on Archaeological Topics, 1985), and that the shamanic beliefs were that the gods and goddesses of heaven and earth were not to be worshipped at all (as is still the case on the island), and that the gods and goddesses were possessed by them through the ritual of jumping to the gods to exorcise the evil spirits, invoke the gods, get rid of the evil spirits, and heal the sick. The French structuralist master Levi-Strauss even thought, "Shamanic studies may one day be used to elucidate the obscure arguments of Freudian theory.

The shamanic culture emerged from the primitive clan society, and its most prominent features are nature worship, totem worship and ancestor worship. Shaman culture is rich and colorful, with significant national and regional characteristics, and its essence is the treasure of traditional Chinese culture.

Northern China is one of the motherlands of shamanic culture, known as the "country of living fossils", preserving a large number of primitive shamanic cultural remains, especially the cultural and artistic forms in the region. After experiencing the barbaric suffering of the historical evolution of the wind and rain, with its tenacious vitality and inspiration, still glows with eye-catching spiritual light, which in turn has become a cultural treasure that archaeologists, anthropologists, historians and art masters strive to rescue and explore, and has become a source of artists' creativity.