Aesthetic Analysis Of Dai Religious Rituals

Traditional religious sacrificial ritual and related ceremonies have been identified as thesignificant criterion that distinguishes the difference between ethnical humanistic value and historical value. Sacrificial ritual, which is particularly important in series religious behaviours, not only illustrates corresponding social order and social relationship, but also represents the human awareness and emotional activities of a period. Religious sacrificial ritual generated and evolved in the long historical heritage and cultural accumulation. Strong religious and cultural ambience will profoundly influence the thinking, value, worldviews, philosophy, culture, psychology and personality of nation. The culture of Dai religious sacrificial ritual carried the Dai’s perception of culture and belief. As the result, it has been referred to the most important part of Dai culture.Dai religious sacrificial ritual, which was formed in specific period and unique physical area, unconsciously penetrated into the culture, life and behaviours of Dai and presented in different forms of festival and custom. Accordingly it has been claimed as the symbol of cultural awareness and judgment of ethnical value. In other words, Dai religious sacrificial ritual is both intermediary of ethnical culture preservation and specific symbol of ethnical culture. Under the interaction between intermediary and symbol, the study of Dai culture should more focus on the religious belief.Aesthetics implications of Dai religious sacrificial ritual can be described as an important representation of ethnical culture and retained unique cultural meaning of ethnic. The ritual has been demonstrating the coherence on aesthetic consciousness and features of ritual awareness, such as transcendence, freeness and so on, and also permeating rich and unique aesthetics implications. Investigation and summary of religious sacrificial ritual, natural environment, history and culture of Dai, which were specifically embodied in the review on the theories of Ghost Consciousness, Immortal Psychology, Consciousness of Identification for Ethnic, Harmonious Consciousness and Consciousness of Reverence for Life, have explored and stated the aesthetics implications. Also the accumulated and inherited the view of universe, outlook on life, values and harmony between human and nature have been cleared. By observation of the theories that related to Dai religious sacrificial ritual, there is a comprehensive understanding and explanation of awareness, forms thought and meaning of aesthetics.