{"id":"CNMAIN-004","label":"Evenki rain-stopping wind slat","people_or_site":"Evenki (forest Evenki of the Greater Khingan)","country_current":"China","historic_region":"Greater Khingan forests, Hulunbuir, Inner Mongolia","macroregion":"East Asia / China","local_name":"","source_term":"薄木片 (thin wooden slip)","source_language":"Chinese","object_description":"A thin slip of wood pierced at one end and tied to a cord, swung rapidly by hand so that it makes a sound of wind. It was used together with pine-twig tassels bound upside down on a thin wooden pole.","function_summary":"Weather magic: in long spells of rain the slip was whirled to make a wind-sound that would blow the dark clouds away, stop the rain and bring fair weather.","attestation_type":"ethnographic_attestation","source_key":"song_1985_minority_religions_evenki","source_type":"scholarly_book","source_url":"https://books.google.com/books?id=KHmuAAAAIAAJ","page_or_plate":"Song 1985 and Encyclopedia of China 1988, page not seen; Chaoke and Wang 2002 pp. 20–22 (search match)","map_confidence":"low","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"Representative anchor in the Greater Khingan forests of northern Hulunbuir (Argun River / Aoluguya reindeer Evenki country); the sources name no settlement.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"When the rain would not stop, the Evenki of the Greater Khingan forests made wind. They bound pine tassels upside down on a thin pole, pierced a slip of wood at one end, tied it to a cord and swung it fast until it roared like a gale. That wind, they held, would scatter the dark clouds and bring back the sun. For the opposite need they floated a dead woodpecker on the water, beak open to the sky, then hung it in a tree to bring the rain.","pull_quote":"再将薄木片一端穿孔系上绳线，用手快速摇转，发出风声，认为可以吹散乌云，止雨放晴。","pull_quote_translation":"Then they pierce one end of a thin slip of wood, tie it to a cord and whirl it fast by hand; it gives out a sound of wind, which they believe can blow away the dark clouds, stop the rain and bring fair skies.","pull_quote_cite":"中国大百科全书·宗教 (1988), shamanism entry","term_gloss":"薄木片 (bo mupian) = 'thin wooden slip'; 风声 (fengsheng) = 'sound of wind'; 止雨放晴 = 'stop the rain and let it clear'.","cls":"weather","class_label":"Weather / fertility magic","color":"#2F6FA3","is_candidate":false,"flags":["weather"],"f_jade_complex":false,"f_women_taboo":false,"f_women_special":false,"f_snake":false,"sources":[{"citation":"Song Enchang 宋恩常, ed., 中国少数民族宗教（初编）[Religions of China's minority nationalities, first series] (Kunming: Yunnan renmin chubanshe, 1985), Evenki section","url":"https://books.google.com/books?id=KHmuAAAAIAAJ"},{"citation":"中国大百科全书·宗教 [Encyclopedia of China: Religion] (Beijing: Zhongguo da baike quanshu chubanshe, 1988), shamanism entry","url":"https://books.google.com/books?id=Om4xAQAAIAAJ"}],"source_citations":"Song Enchang 宋恩常, ed., 中国少数民族宗教（初编）[Religions of China's minority nationalities, first series] (Kunming: Yunnan renmin chubanshe, 1985), Evenki section; 中国大百科全书·宗教 [Encyclopedia of China: Religion] (Beijing: Zhongguo da baike quanshu chubanshe, 1988), shamanism entry","source_display":"Song Enchang 宋恩常, ed., 中国少数民族宗教（初编）[Religions of China's minority nationalities, first series] (Kunming: Yunnan renmin chubanshe, 1985), Evenki section; 中国大百科全书·宗教 [Encyclopedia of China: Religion] (Beijing: Zhongguo da baike quanshu chubanshe, 1988), shamanism entry","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"A thin slip of wood pierced at one end and tied to a cord, swung rapidly by hand so that it makes a sound of wind. It was used together with pine-twig tassels bound upside down on a thin wooden pole.","function_display":"Weather magic: in long spells of rain the slip was whirled to make a wind-sound that would blow the dark clouds away, stop the rain and bring fair weather.","confidence_display":"low","attestation_label":"ethnographic attestation","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"evenki","display_name":"Evenki rain-stopping wind slat","image":{"full":"assets/objects/jade_candidates/local_review/ea-wanigawa-001-item24.png","thumb":"assets/objects/jade_candidates/local_review/thumbs/ea-wanigawa-001-item24_thumb.jpg","credit":"","license":"","source_page":"https://saikaikouko.jp/No4/tukahara2001a.pdf","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"Wanigawa shell-mound wedge-shaped pendant (第3図 no. 24)","pool_id":"auto-jade_candidates--local_review--ea-wanigawa-001-item24","auto_assigned":true,"last_modified":"2026-11-05"},"slug":"cnmain-004-evenki-forest-evenki-of-the-greater-khingan"}