普米族白石崇拜的文化解读

白石崇拜是中国西南地区普米族宗教信仰的表征之一,具有普米先民图腾崇拜、自然崇拜、祖先崇拜的多重文化内涵。作为图腾象征物它具有保护部族成员的功能,西南各族群供奉白石图腾象征物,是期望得到图腾神灵的有效保护。普米族、羌族、藏族、纳西族先民在长达数千年的历史进程中,在藏彝走廊迁徙、征战、交往、融合,作为氐羌族群共有的白石崇拜也经历了长期的文化互渗,以致在藏彝走廊狭长的地域范围内,形成诸族群大同小异的白石崇拜文化圈。诸族群对白石的崇拜不仅是象征祖先神灵,也是古羌集团源远流长的尚白心理的反映。

Cultural Interpretation of Pumi White Stone Worship

As one of the representations of Pumi religion in southwest China,white stone worship has rich cultural implications,including totemism,nature worship and ancestor worship.White stone worship as a symbol of totemism has the function of protection.In the long history of their development,the ancestors of the Pumi nationality,the Qiang nationality,the Tibetan nationality and the Naxi nationality in the Tibeto-Yi Corridor have experienced migration,wars,contact and fusion,and their white stone worship was no e...