Identity And Change

YOU SHEN is the ritual activity of traditional BAI’s local deity worship of SANGZHI district,it means the local people carry the deity and then parade around to each family of village.The descendant take this way to express the yearning and appreciate the ancestors. YOU SHEN loaded a lots of folk music culture.YOU SHEN clearly increased the music element in source BAI of Dali district since 1984 when MING JIA REN in SANGZHI district had been affirmed identity of BAI. This paper describes three typical events of YOU SHEN ,through the clan’s identification explains the YOU SHEN in October Fifteens at MAI Di PING, use ethnic origin’s identification explains SAN YUE JIE activity and other 30th anniversary celebration of BAI ZU XIANG establishment.Try to explain how the folk strength and government strength use ritual and its music to strengthen the ethnic identity, and particular analysis the relationship between ritual music and identity.Along with the social development,the ancient YOU SHEN ritual inevitable changed. Paper used clan and ethnic origin’s identification theory to research individual events and study the relationship between identity and culture change beside.Intend to portray the overall cultural space of YOU SHEN of BAt of SANGZHI district.