This paper classifies and sums up the contents,rituals,features of the Zhuang people s offering sacrifices to ancestors,and expounds the profound social functions and rich cultural connotations of the Zhuang ancestor worship.

From the perspective of Raojia people s ethnic festivals,wedding custom,funeral and folk taboo,the article discusses the role played by ancestor worship in the life of Raojia people.

This article comes up with a systemic discussion about suol concept of traditional religion including Bon-po,Buddhism and folkreligion in Tibet,and also analyses the early ancestral worship,explores the meaning and connotation of Tibetan soul concept in different ages and different religions.

The paper analyzes the causes of its formation at level of ancestral worship from the angle of religion,in order to understand the important function of religion in the psychological development of national culture.

It is pointed iut that sacrificial rite was the result of ancestral worship,which in turn was the inevitable reflection of human reproduction worship.

In this historical process of evolution, from the worship of natural to the worship of totem to the worship of ancestor, the motivation of the conciousness of life had great effects on its artistic conception and presentation.

There is,about Chinese Buddhist sculpture, an interpretation of ethnological cultural characteristics,which are mundanity and artisticity, and ethnological mechanism of selection ,which is ceremony of ancestry adoration.