According to the program, with the changes of modern life in Africa, there are fewer and fewer primitive tribes, among which only ethnic tribes still maintain an ancient way of life and continue some of their cultural customs and living habits.
The lifestyle of these ethnic tribes mainly has the following characteristics: First, the material desire is not strong, and the requirements for material life are not high. In the words of China people, it is simply eating and abstinence. For example, some tribes make a living by fishing, some live a nomadic life, and some tribes maintain their basic survival by raising several livestock. Their living conditions are also very simple. There are no beautiful brick and tile buildings common in modern countryside, and there are no magnificent high-rise buildings everywhere in metropolis. Simply collect some palm leaves or acacia branches and choose a suitable place for convenient construction. This can not only satisfy daily life, but also facilitate future mobility and travel. Secondly, compared with this simple and rough material life, their spiritual life is very diverse, full and exquisite, full of connotation and mystery. The general feeling is that they pay little attention to the management of material life and spend most of their time and energy on the creation and experience of spiritual life.
For example, before going fishing, they often have to perform some serious fishing ceremonies to express their awe and gratitude to the gods. In catching big fish or other harvest seasons, they will sing and dance to express their inner joy or gratitude to the gods. In a word, many religious factors permeate their various working occasions or links, which is a very important spiritual life and emotion in itself. In addition, when they treat patients, they should first go out and look for some kind of plant roots or leaves with special significance and curative effect, and then let wizards perform some mysterious spells, with the ultimate goal of curing patients with special religious functions. In our modern society, this primitive treatment of diseases seems superstitious, but strangely, this treatment is often very useful. This ancient and primitive way of treating diseases actually contains rich religious content, which is absolutely beyond the explanation of modern scientific thinking. Once the treatment is successful, they also express their inner joy in the form of singing and dancing. Especially in some tribal festivals with special significance, they will experience a very complicated and spiritual behavior ceremony. For example, they attach great importance to it, devote themselves wholeheartedly, and even spend a lot of material sacrifices to complete rituals such as ancestor worship, god worship, adult ceremony, circumcision and so on. These various religious festivals and ceremonies make their spiritual life colorful and rich in connotation, which is in great contrast with the common entertainment and leisure methods of modern people. Compared with these primitive ethnic tribes, the spiritual life of modern people is somewhat simple, poor and superficial. We modern people's singing and dancing, watching TV and reading novels are basically entertainment consumption, belonging to fast food culture, and basically have no profound life significance and religious sustenance. Most of them are in the form of laughing consumption, and many modern entertainment consumption are full of sensibility, even linked to physiological desires, such as some low-quality webcast festivals.
In addition, the life of these African ethnic tribes has a very striking and enviable feature, that is, they know how to be contented and always have a smile on their faces, so they are easy-going and kind, and treat their life and the world around them with a very satisfied and happy attitude. So they always sing and dance on many occasions, and even some small reasons in our opinion are enough to make them fall into a state of happiness and intoxication at once. They will join hands, form a circle, tread a rhythmic melody, mutter, sing and dance, and be very selfless. People feel that although life is simple, there is always joy everywhere, and there is almost no room for happiness.
I really envy it when I think about it. What is happiness? This question seems complicated and difficult to answer for us modern people, but it is actually very simple for those primitive tribes, that is, one word-music, or two words: happiness or happiness. Look at us modern people living in big cities. It seems that our life is full and satisfied. In fact, if you think about it carefully, there are really many problems in it. Can we keep happy and satisfied every day like those tribal peoples? I'm afraid many people are willing but can't. Because we live in modern society, we have too many desires, too much pressure and too many complicated ideas. In short, our humanity has changed, and of course the world has already turned over. Our daily tasks are first intense work, and then heavy family responsibilities, such as raising children. After hard work every day, we are often exhausted, where there is leisure and extra thoughts or energy to laugh. As a result, the poetic life has gone away from us. In the words of Schiller, a great western philosopher, we modern people have long lived in a sentimental era, and the romantic life of harmony between man and nature is gone forever. This may be the fate of mankind or the fate of cultural evolution.
I was deeply impressed by the lives of those African tribesmen. Their lives seemed simple, crude and even a little ignorant, but their lives were so simple and organized, so happy and rigorous. In particular, their life is full of various meanings. They are immersed in it, intoxicated with it, singing and dancing, experiencing and praying for happiness are the main melody melody melody of their life and life significance. Isn't this simple and energetic life a poetic way of life?
Although it is impossible for us modern people to return to nature absolutely, if we want to get peace and balance of mind and live poetically in this materialistic land, we should also learn to reduce our desires, know how to be grateful and content, enjoy the gifts of nature and have the ability to feel simple and happy. Isn't it?