The Symbiosis Of Forest And People:The Research On Forest Culture And Transition Of Yi People

Forest research is usually placed in the field of natural science, but because of the forest and the human has a very close contact, which showed a strong humanistic attributes. Objectively speaking, forestry has the dual attributes of nature and humanity. Especially, When humans are troubled many ecological problems, beautiful scenery is more important in the social and economic development and human survival. The resources and ecological function of forest is of great significance to human subsistence and development, The progress of human civilization are constructed on the basis of the exploiting and utilization of forest, the decline of civilization or transfer of economic and political center of gravity were often caused by the destruction of forests.The emergence and development of Yi people has connected with forest. Yi’s forest culture is mainly manifested in three aspects of material, spirit, system. The material level, Yi people make full use of forest resources to maintain their livelihood, the forest is an important material foundation and the environment for Yi’s living. In the process of using the forest, summed up many forest utilization skills, this is the essence of the forest culture material level. The spirit level, Yi people has deep feelings for the forest, there are many forest-related practices in terms of primitive religion and Life Etiquette, from these practices can be seen in the respect of the forest ecological concept of Yi People. The system level, Yi people has a forest protection organization and the system of forest protection. Afforestation, god forest system, and forest protection system play an important role in the protection of forest.The forest in the Yi area changed little before the Qing Dynasty, due to rapid population growth, agricultural reclamation, mining and metallurgy and tobacco consumption of firewood, commercial logging, wood procurement, industrial supplies, political activities and military activity causes the forest to more serious damage, triggering a series of ecological and social consequences. Forest change, scientific and technological progress, modern lifestyle intervention caused forest culture transition, and then make some of the forest related culture fade or even disappear, to bring challenges and opportunities for forest protection.The core of Yi’s forest culture is the symbiosis of forest and people, the forest is a decisive role in symbiosis, The forest is the premise of using the forest, forest protection is conducive to sustainable using forest. The symbiosis of forest and people show from forest to people and from people to forest, or from using forest to protecting forest and from protecting forest to using forest.The symbiosis of forest and people is precious In the construction of ecological civilization, we should use yi culture forest to ecological restoration and protection of biological diversity. Plant culture of Yi people is an important part of forest culture, We should apply Yi plant culture to urban greening of Yi areas.