Qiang Nationality’s Traditional Ecological Culture and Environmental Consciousness Education and Their Realistic Significances

Abstract

As one of China's most ancient ethnic minorities, Qiang nationality has extremely distinctive production mode and lifestyle, religious belief, customs and habits, etc, from which traditional Qiang ecological culture grows. In this paper, the content of traditional Qiang ecological culture is introduced at first from four aspects: the ecological culture contained in the primitive religion, the ecological culture contained in myths and legends, the ecological culture reflected by lifestyle and production mode, and the ecological culture embodied in rites (etiquette and custom); next, the method of traditional environmental consciousness education is discussed, including education and warning under the Nasa tower, memorial ceremony for the mountains, taboo education and other Qiang ceremonies; finally, the realistic significances of traditional Qiang ecological culture and environmental consciousness in the ecological environment recovery and protection and sustainable development of Qiang area after the 5.12 earthquake are stated.