A Study On The Funeral Ceremony Of Wuding Red

The funeral customs of the Yi people in Wuding have a long history, rich content, complex rituals and diverse phenomena, which retain the unique features of the original beliefs. Funeral activities can enable us to obtain a general understanding of the Yi People’s religious beliefs, while the funeral ceremony itself is an important manifestation of the Yi’s religious behavior. It can be said that the funeral customs of the Yi people is a primitive and fresh cultural history, it is to understand the Yi nationality religious and national culture. Yi’s funeral ceremony showing a strong primitive religious culture, also appeared the deep-rooted Yi of the concept of the soul, and the worship of ancestors heavy customs, its funeral stage also have different cultural background, but also full of deep cultural roots. Yi’s funeral ceremony showing a strong primitive religious culture, also appeared the deep-rooted Yi of the concept of the soul, and the worship of ancestors heavy customs, in each of its funeral stage also have different cultural background, but also full of deep cultural roots.The Wuding hong Yi funeral rites as the main research object, on the basis of field survey, combined with previous research results and the local chronicles of a large number of relevant literature research. First, carries on the elaboration to the Wuding Yi primitive religious beliefs and religious ceremonies, namely by the nature worship, totem worship and ancestor worship consisting mainly of religious and wedding ceremony and funeral ceremony ritual.secondly, more complete description and records to the funeral ceremony of Yi, the hong Yi the ritual process in-depth analysis of funeral and behind the profound connotation of national culture, secret by traditional beliefs led directly to the year after year continuous performances of the funeral ceremony, analysis of the characteristics of the funeral ceremony of the hong Yi. Finally, from two aspects of theory and practice of contemporary value of red Yi funeral ceremony of thinking.