What's the difference between shaman and Ma Xian?

Shamans have both ancestor gods and animal gods. Animals are the main family of Ma Xian, and some ghosts are called ghost immortals. Shamans are generally members of the clan, mostly ethnic minorities. Officially, it is similar to shaman's form, but in terms of content, besides the original divination, medical treatment and other things, it is more in line with China's richer content, such as Feng Shui, Eight Diagrams, Eight Characters and other original concepts.

The meaning of shaman

First of all, Shaman is transliteration. Shaman and Sa mean to know, and man means to know, so Shaman's original intention is to know people, know animism, know the running law of nature, know the meaning of life, communicate with ghosts and gods, and change things with the help of ghosts and gods. This is what the primitive shaman means.

According to these records, shaman, as a form of human tribe, has a history of at least tens of thousands of years. However, with the progress of the times and the development of science and technology, many modern people regard it as a part of science, separate it from science and become a recognized materialistic behavior, such as modern medicine. And those that still cannot be recognized by modern science still exist in their original forms, such as geomantic omen, divination and so on.