What are the taboos of Manchu?

Manchu people can't eat dog meat, goose (magpie) meat, eagle meat and horse meat.

1, why dog meat doesn't eat dog meat is still inconclusive. It is a well-known legend that the righteous dog saved Hanwang.

2, goose (magpie) meat is full of people worshipping birds, Sansheng bathes, immortals come to Zhuguo, Sansheng eats a pregnant and healthy Bukuri. Magpies are called Manchu ancestors. So Manchu people don't eat geese, magpies and pigeon meat.

3. The eagle meat eagle is considered as the messenger of N'Dori (full meaning "God"). The light and fire between heaven and earth are all taken from the sun by Endori, a cool breeze from Haidong.

4. Horse meat horse is the partner of Manchu and ancestors in sports and production, and it is also a symbol of wealth.

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Manchu once believed in Shamanism. "Shaman" is Tungusic, which means "crazy person". Translate into a guide. Shamanism of Manchu has four meanings: nature worship, totem worship, ancestor worship and idol worship, so there are many and miscellaneous gods worshipped. Sacrifices have different ways of remembering, including the difference between the court and the people, the difference between the rich and the poor, and the difference between the region and the family.

In the early Qing Dynasty, the shamans in the imperial palace were mostly smart women who were familiar with Aisingiorro clan dialect. They are called shaman ladies, who are in charge of the emperor holding various holy books and chanting Manchu to worship God, which is different from the folk shaman's treatment. Until the founding of New China, Manchu still maintained shamanism in Ningguta and Aihui in the northeast.

There are two kinds of folk shamans, one is a shaman who jumps over the gods to cure diseases, asks divination and exorcises ghosts, and the other is a family shaman who manages sacrifices and is responsible for offering sacrifices to ancestors. In the past, Manchu farmers "believed in witches but not doctors". When they are sick, they ask the shaman to jump out of his mind first. If he fails, he will seek medical treatment.

When the shaman prays for the sky, he wears a pointed hat, decorated with five-color paper strips, hangs his face, hangs a small mirror, wears a cloth skirt and a long dress, wears a bronze bell at his waist, drums and dances, and speaks aloud. And the family shaman has one for each surname. When offering sacrifices to their ancestors, they sang and danced in Manchu, praising the harvest of that year or praising the merits of their ancestors.

On the west wall of the main house in Manchu Dynasty, there is a "ancestral board" one foot eight inches wide and one foot and a half long, which is called "Japanese garage" in Manchu. There are magic knives (Hama knives) and arrows during the sacrifice, which means that they were used by ancestors. There is a yellow cloth bag called "Mother's Pocket" or "Grandchildren's Empress" hanging next to the Divine Board, which contains three or four zhangs of silk ropes called "Grandchildren's Rope" and "Long Life Rope". Before the ancestor worship, I got the ancestor worship box from Xikang and set three tables for the yellow rice cake.

Then the elders in the family opened the box, and the whole family knocked on their heads three times in the order of generations, kneeling on the south kang and the north kang or the outhouse respectively. At this time, the shaman began to put on his coat, skirt, waist bell, hat and drum, prayed in front of his ancestors and began to dance. When you jump, turn three times, retreat three times, make a toast and walk the dance steps. It usually takes three days and three nights.

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Baidu encyclopedia-Manchu style