Manchu Stories (Manchu Stories of Sunwu County)

Heilongjiang
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The Manchu story of Sunwu County is one of the surviving stories of the Manchu storytelling. Manchu storytelling refers to a long prose narrative literature created and told by Manchu folk artists, which aims to reflect the war life and emotional world of the Manchu people in history. Because its style is similar to the storytelling of Han folk artists, and each book can be told independently, it is called "storytelling". The Manchu language is called "Uleben", which means biography or biography in Chinese. Manchu storytelling relies on word of mouth and is mainly inherited from generation to generation within the clan. Most of them are told and sung in Manchu. After the middle of the Qing Dynasty, Manchu gradually disappeared, and most of them are told and sung in Chinese mixed with Manchu. The Manchu storytelling is composed of a main story line as the axis, supplemented by several or dozens of branch story chains as the latitude, which are linked together to form an intricate, vivid and touching long masterpiece. Elder He Shihuan from Sijitun Village, Yanjiang Township, Sunwu County, Heilongjiang Province, married Guan Wenyuan, a Manchu shaman from Sijitun, in 1942. She tells the story of Yinjiang Shaman (Nishan Shaman) in Manchu, commonly known as "the story on the shrine", which is a shamanic myth and extraordinary miracles of shaman ancestors told by the shamans of the clan and passed down from generation to generation. In addition, she can also tell Manchu stories such as "Road to Heaven", "Princess Baiyun", "Raccoon and Badger", and "Proud Carp" in fluent Manchu. Manchu stories are a reflection of the ideology of the Manchus and their ancestors in a certain historical period and a certain society. They contain rich and dignified social and historical content, and show the long-standing production and living landscapes, colorful folk customs, vivid shamanistic sacrificial rituals, and ancient knowledge of astronomy and geography, navigation, seismic divination, medicine, and animal and plant reproduction of the Manchus and their ancestors and other northern ethnic groups. Especially the production knowledge and operating skills are often passed on through the formulas and rhymes in the stories.

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