Central Conservatory Ceremony Music Culture

Beginning from observation on funeral rites of the TuJia nationality in the west of HuBei province. The paper analysis and sums up the religious conception ,musical pattern, musical act of the rites and also studies the cultural character of music and mode in the funeral ceremony and the rule of the distributing in the rites.The funeral rites of the TuJia nationality is one kinds of the traditional custom which took shape in the social life in long history, It shows deep rooted accumulation, which made up the character of nationality ,history and geography. Being looked as if the important time of the life, the rites is attached importance to the people of the TuJia. The fixed way of thinking and habit got shape during the living of TuJia constitutes high sprit level and concentrating strength. We can understand the important pole of music from the funeral rites and we also understand the outlook on life of the TuJia from the music in the funeral rites.Basing on the way of investigation on the sport of ethnomusicology, We go around and make inquiries about the funeral rites at Huang Mao ping village 19th group, Mo Po town ,Lai Feng county and Lan Gan ping village 20th Sha Dao gou town , Xuan En county, both in the west of HuBei province. Besides, we make other complementary investigation near the two points.In the first chapter, the paper relates separately on the general situation of the TuJia , introduces briefly about the history, geography, language , custom, religious belief, and national arts ; In the second chapter, we consult the focal point about the history and custom of death and bury ,and construction of the funeral ceremony; In the third chapter we emphasis the individual case in the Tujia ,which can be dissected sparrow and looked at leopard through a bamboo tube .The funeral rites of the TuJia is the important point in the article, in which we talk about the time, the place, the sequence, the personage , musical performance etc. and we also compare the function between the Han nationality and the TuJia nationality in the same kinds in some degree. In this way we can comprehend more clearly about the character of funeral culture of the TuJia, Taoist rites, the flower-drum, the dancing for the corpse are the main parts of the funeral rites ,which shows the distinguishing feature of the TuJia funeral ceremony and shows the reflection of other cultures. The three parts can be performance partly and be combined in the same place. It expresses the peculiarity of moving of arts and bold unconstrained style of the TuJia. the musical model, the skill of performance, the organizing of instruments, the way of shows etc. In the Taoist rites ,the flower drum and the dancing for the corpse are great parts in the four chapter . we analysis the content of musical culture in the funeral rites of the TuJia , It connect tightly and deeply with the culture of wizard ,of exorcise , of the Buddhist and the Taoist ,it exchanges with the culture of Chu and of the Han for a long times . The spirits and characteristic ofnationality of the TuJia contact tautly with these elements As the important substance, The music of the funeral rites owns many kinds of function that have been discussed in the paper.Through the studying separately on the text of musical culture of funeral rites of the TuJia , the writer look the flower-drum and the dancing for corpse as the special factors in the funeral rites of the TuJia , and the obvious feature and rule of being scattered of the funeral rites of theTuJia is that "the flower-drum is in the south and the dancing for corpse is in the north in the west of HuBei province.