The Chuan Miao indulge in much ceremony when death occurx in a family. prior to, during and after the mnerai., When a person dies: ty er them" gri "the "body of the Eorpse, "Then he, ican son three umes hind 1"tonie hold of, your "eck crow since. been thrown open to those me terested and now has some 200 mem. bers, many of whom are very active various research work, Chinese Barred out to "level country The Jouenal Contributions, "Outstanding "amon inter
"=the Custom monk of fessor David C. Graham, the wel Known authority on matters pertain" ing t0 the aboriginal races of West Chinn, the anthropologist's paradis We will quote what Professor Graham has to say concerning the Ch'uan Mise ale euktomae ey have hosed doors, ith aa the worship of re performed. behind the door ana "the lig o¢ the "sw nai "Ceremonies of commemoration {When worshipping the sky lemon, he Silo ate? vo°nat nobody who I confined to the Chuan hotta Mino cam understand them. I the, fo eexciontcn mentioned above. uniate évemeny must be repeated.
During the funeral ceremo music, daneing, sacrificing animals and later feasting. The meat from animal sacrifices is cut into nine pieces and after an offering is made {fo the ancestors it is used for' the moral feast. The Ch'uan Mise have peculiar custom of disinterring the corpse after it has been buried for certain period. This ts called by the"Chinet eto chen coe son ie te ce art octo is ap. top. he place Peculiar Wrinkles 'The origin of the Miao tribes i not definitely known and actually they fre not true aboriginals but are supposed to have entered China, according to some authorities, from the South' and gradually scattered 0 numerous parts of Ching, Their ance Into China must have been at very carly date as they are. fre quently referred to in the Chinese Indicate that the ato ate ving ata "Phe Chuan Mia have a tradition that "mey "Were "brought From "some Wherein' sith Chins. probably from Hed behind thole packs, and released Where they how, five: "Some "of "then pont "to och ike pete tha nae their TSine' bones are "black. the" bul Prey tie" rubbed. with, master Pisseris Mot food and the' corpse must ewe place lise the The Journal also" contains a very interesting article by Mr. D. R. Feng and Mr. 'L. G. Kilborn, "Nosa and Miao Arrow Poisons." Another instructive article, "An Aryan Content {in the Tibetan Language," by Br. J. Howard Jeffrey. is of extreme value to those' interested in this class Fesearch. ""Some' Studies" inthe Buddhism of Szechuen" by Chester Wood, "The Four Great Kinds of Meaven"' by S.V.R Cam The Lama's Cosmogony* by R. Cunning Ram, "Outline. of Alehemical Pres criptions." by Tuku ao, translated by: Fung Chis-loh and" i. Brice Han Dynasty Remains Sung Shan, Honan" by Mary Augusta Muilikin, ore all very" instructive Papers and commendable to those interested, The Editors of the "Journal of the ting and Social West China Border Research Society." Messrs. Leslie G.. Kilborn aiid. Chen the economic life of Teb-kun, are to. be commended the Chuan Miao, Professor Graham mentions that they are all sons of the sell and get their living from the this issue and T look forward to the pleasure of reviewing many more
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