| On the Song of King Pan of Jianghua Yao Ethnic Group in HunanYao Ethnic Group is a minority nationality with a long excellent cultural heritage. Jianghua, known as"the hometown of Yao Ethnic Group song"which is the biggest Yao Ethnic Group automatic county in China, has many folk songs with colorful contents. Yao Ethnic Group regard the Pan King as their ancestor, and hold celebrating activities from ancient time to present, the song of King Pan, the song which is sung during the celebrating etiquette, is widely spread in Yao Ethnic Group and has great impact on the people's lives. This thesis selects the song of King Pan as a case, which has close relationship with the celebrating etiquette, trying to explore its historic and cultural value, representing the treasure of Yao Ethnic Group to the world, arousing the care of people for it and making it inherit and develop in the new times.The paper is composed of three parts. The first chapter mainly introduces the origin and development of the song of King Pan, the song of King Pan has a long developing history, it was firstly written in ancient time, forming in Jin Dynasty, perfecting in Tang and Song Dynasty, becoming mature during the period of the end of Ming Dynasty and the beginning of Qing Dynasty. The second chapter analyzes the song of King Pan from the perspective of the art of the folk song, the characters of music score of Chinese operas and the words between the songs and singing style.The third chapter explores the status quo of living condition of the song of King Pan and analyzes the causes, making some prediction for it according to the measures taken by the local government. |