A Collation And Study Of The Yi Version Of "Genesis" Collected By Paul Vial

"Genesis" also known as flooding,word of mouth is the Yi Epic.There are different versions circulating in different regions.Epic from epoch,the origin of all things,human birth,flooding human regeneration,to show us a grand historical picture.It is an expression of collective memory and history of our ancestors in the special historical background and social environment of the construction is to strengthen their ethnic identity,ethnic enhance internal cohesion,thus creating and construction history of this ethnic group.Results of previous studies on the Creation Epic quite good,generally concentrated on the origins of the epic,maternal characteristics and which contains the philosophy and so on.The article from the point of view of philology Epic research.This article selected "Genesis" is a 1896 French missionaries Paul · Vilal(1855-1917)in Shilin(then known as South Road)Sani Yi zone of missionary collected.This version of "Genesis" after finishing the collation can be divided into two parts,a total of 1175 words,the entire text without reading the sentence.Yi combine text with French phonetic writing,Paul · Vilal by this article is intended to illustrate Yi vocabulary usage,that the text to explain the meaning of the words are sometimes not given its original meaning.This is the main part of the "Genesis" translation and annotation.In the interpretation of the first correction process paragraphs and sentences for corruption in order to read the text to be divided,in this process will be translated into French IPA phonetic complete text on the basis of the results of the use of existing and dictionaries on the translation,annotation work translation of the text for translation will use four lines,and minor changes in form;secondly text appears in a lot of Tongjia characters,variant forms and misspellings,Tongjia characters and allogeneic Yi word use is more common in the literature,these presence increases the difficulty of reading text.Therefore reflect the characteristics of the original content and language,this paper will analyze one of these texts with words circumstances.