Although Bo people live in Tibet, their customs are quite different from those of Tibetans. The most obvious thing is that Bo people don't worship Tibetan Buddhist temples. People worship nature. Bo people have great admiration for all natural phenomena in the outside world. Because Bo people don't have much contact with other ethnic groups, their primitive religious ideas are strong, agricultural production depends on slash and burn, and animal husbandry and hunting rely on bow and arrow shooting. Bo people who live by the sky always have an indescribable mystery about nature. Humans are not dominated by themselves, but are controlled by familiar and unfamiliar mountains and rivers. Among Bo people, the sun that can bring them warmth and light is the natural thing that Bo people admire most. On the ground, Bo people think that elves are everywhere, and the existence of ghosts determines the exploitation of wasteland.
In addition, compared with the sun and the earth, people worship animals and plants more widely, especially the forests where people live, because for them, almost all the means of production and production tools come from forests. Without forests, people can't survive, so their worship of forests is unparalleled; Some ghost trees in the forest have strange shapes and are also the objects of Bo people's worship.
There is a saying that Bo people migrated from the ancient Qiang people. Compared with the Bo people's worship of nature, the religious concepts of the ancient Qiang people have many similarities, some of which are unique to these two ethnic groups. Like Miao people, the ancient Qiang people also believe in animism, and all natural phenomena and objects in nature have supernatural and irresistible power. It is precisely because of the existence of animistic religious ideas rooted in the ancient Qiang culture, as well as the Miao people's fear of supernatural forces and their weakness and begging in the face of natural forces that the ancient Qiang people will avoid the risk of overreaching and make their descendants like the Miao people survive.
These three people worship the monkey skull very much and think it can ward off evil spirits. Therefore, all three people have monkey skulls. When these three people hold an exorcism called "Deya", they will definitely use the monkey skull. Even if they don't have it, they will use it to avoid expelling evil spirits. The ancient Qiang people also worshipped the monkey totem. When offering sacrifices, people will take the monkey head as their ancestor and worship it in a shrine at home. Although there are many legends about the worship of the monkey head of the Qiang nationality, there is no doubt that they worship the monkey totem. This kind of worship is quite similar to the monkey skull worship of Bo people. On the one hand, Bo people with obvious traces of primitive religion are influenced by Sino-Tibetan culture, on the other hand, more importantly,
Bo people live in the border area between China and Myanmar. In the surrounding areas, there are also ethnic minorities in China, such as Nu, Dulong, Barrow and Jingpo. There are many ethnic groups in this area. They live in Tibet, Yunnan and Sichuan. Although there is no unified statement that these ethnic groups belong to the same ethnic origin, they have similar cultural traditions. In religious belief, these ethnic groups are generally influenced by Tibetan Buddhism, but for Bo people, these influences do not seem obvious. The religious belief of Bo people still stays in the primitive stage of nature worship and ghost worship out of pragmatism, and perhaps the natural and man-made disasters suffered are more obvious. This ethnic group shows a unique and obviously exclusive belief mode and state. It is precisely because of this primitive model that Bo people originated from the ancient Qiang people in their religious beliefs.