In the past people have often utilized the model of signification to understand the basic trends of Manchu and Qing history, as well as, its important events and historical phenomenon. This essay changes the perspecti...In the past people have often utilized the model of signification to understand the basic trends of Manchu and Qing history, as well as, its important events and historical phenomenon. This essay changes the perspective on Manchus from passive objects and looks at them as active partied pants. The article considers how Manchus consciously resisted assimilation and erosion of their culture, and how they consciously reduced, molded, transformed, and controlled signification, thereby causing both cultural exchanges and conflicts between Manchu and Chinese to reach a new level. The interaction between Manchu and Chinese gave new meaning to cultural fusion. This type of protracted, painful, and prolonged process of cultural fusion, not only saw the Manchus successfully maintain their own national identity over a relatively long period, moreover it also gave the history of the Qing dynasty a distinctive quality when compared to all previous dynasties. The influence of this cultural interaction was deep and, perhaps, faint traces of this interaction are J still apparent today.展开更多
The nine bronze bells hanging from the occupant’ waistbelt, unearthed in the Tomb No. 38 in Deliesidui, Russia are just the same as those used in Shamantic reli gious ceremonies This discovery indicates that the Xion...The nine bronze bells hanging from the occupant’ waistbelt, unearthed in the Tomb No. 38 in Deliesidui, Russia are just the same as those used in Shamantic reli gious ceremonies This discovery indicates that the Xiongnu occupant is very likely to be a woman Shaman and it also suggests that metal waistbelts had already come into existence in the Xiongnu Age. There are also some glass beads and strings of stone beads hanging from the waistbelt, which have the same functions as the bells.The beads are the primitiue form of "waisthells". The gold emage of godess un earthed in the No. 7 Turkic tomb in Guoyi-bala, Russia, the godess may have been the first ancestor for shamanism. The decorated ornaments unearthed in the Nuzhen tombs from Liao Dynasty and Mohe tombs had originated from the Xiongnu open work ornaments. The excavation of bronze openwork ornaments and bells in Vuzhen tombs from Ming Dynasty in Liaoning province reflects the fact that the use of this kind of ornament had extened to Ming展开更多
文摘In the past people have often utilized the model of signification to understand the basic trends of Manchu and Qing history, as well as, its important events and historical phenomenon. This essay changes the perspective on Manchus from passive objects and looks at them as active partied pants. The article considers how Manchus consciously resisted assimilation and erosion of their culture, and how they consciously reduced, molded, transformed, and controlled signification, thereby causing both cultural exchanges and conflicts between Manchu and Chinese to reach a new level. The interaction between Manchu and Chinese gave new meaning to cultural fusion. This type of protracted, painful, and prolonged process of cultural fusion, not only saw the Manchus successfully maintain their own national identity over a relatively long period, moreover it also gave the history of the Qing dynasty a distinctive quality when compared to all previous dynasties. The influence of this cultural interaction was deep and, perhaps, faint traces of this interaction are J still apparent today.
文摘The nine bronze bells hanging from the occupant’ waistbelt, unearthed in the Tomb No. 38 in Deliesidui, Russia are just the same as those used in Shamantic reli gious ceremonies This discovery indicates that the Xiongnu occupant is very likely to be a woman Shaman and it also suggests that metal waistbelts had already come into existence in the Xiongnu Age. There are also some glass beads and strings of stone beads hanging from the waistbelt, which have the same functions as the bells.The beads are the primitiue form of "waisthells". The gold emage of godess un earthed in the No. 7 Turkic tomb in Guoyi-bala, Russia, the godess may have been the first ancestor for shamanism. The decorated ornaments unearthed in the Nuzhen tombs from Liao Dynasty and Mohe tombs had originated from the Xiongnu open work ornaments. The excavation of bronze openwork ornaments and bells in Vuzhen tombs from Ming Dynasty in Liaoning province reflects the fact that the use of this kind of ornament had extened to Ming
