Anthropological Studies Of The Liangshan Yi Nationality Culture Heritage

LIANGSHANYI nationality develops to now days and leaves broad, deep and unique national traditional culture. Meanwhile, LIANGSHANYI people could form completely different cultural psychology, culture character and behavior model compared with other nationalities. The main reason lies in the long existence and the function of the unique JIAZHI System and cultural and the hierarchy during the social and historical development through thousands of years of LIANGSHANYI nationality. The LIANGSHANYI JIAZHI culture includes JIAZHI concept, JIAZHI consciousness, pedigree of special name arrangement between son and father, relatives titles, organization form, marriage settlement, ancestor sacrifice, sprit belief, enemy war, unification and mutual help, living principles, human moral education as well as transmitting fairy tales, maxims and family instructions, scientific and humanity knowledge, etc, involving social organization, religious belief, ethnical morality, marriage model, cause of war, every kinds of national traditional culture of LIANGSHANYI nationality. This paper analyzed, studied and explored systematically about the transmission of LIANGSHAN YI nationality JIAZHI culture and the problem of education choice from the view of educational anthropology. This thesis consists of six chapters to analyze and study the problems mentioned above.This paper explained about the cause, reason and importance of the research, doing introduction, summarization and analysis on the relevant research achievements, explaining about the theory, method, steps of the study and some terminologies used in this paper.Chapter one: LIANGSHAN YI nationality and its social sub-vision structure. This chapter outlined systematically some basic contents, such as the distribution, origin, the name of the nationality, language and characters. In addition, it explored about the LIANGSHANYI nationality and the classification of social structures of LIANGSHANYI nationality before the democratic reform.Chapter two: The origin of LIANGSHAN YI JIAZHI culture.Explaining about the conception of the LIANGSHAN YI JIAZHI and the similarities as well as the differences compared with family, patriarchal clan and clan system. Focusing on analyzing the origin, form and development of LIANGSHAN YI JIAZHI culture, and the graph of multiply, relatives titles, pedigree of special name arrangement between son and father, the relations among the different JIAZHI of LIANGSHAN YI JIAZHI and its material foundation and culture, which assure its exist.Chapter three: The analysis of the content, character and the function of LIANGSHAN YI JIAZHI culture. Firstly, this part analyzed in detail on the contents of LIANGSHAN YI JIAZHI culture from twelve aspects, which are the organization shape of LIANGSHAN YI JIAZHI, military fighting, religious belief, marriage model, unification and mutual help, gathering for meeting, ethnics and morality, rituals for human beings, the leader, the custom regulations, taboos and the content of ERPU. Secondly, this chapter illustrated in detail on the eight aspects of the culture characteristics, namely, natural, forgivable, non-sexual, authority, continuous, extensive, closing, and complication. Finally, it explained systematically about five aspects on culture function towards LIANGSHAN YI JIAZHI culture, namely, clearing JIAZHI family members, safeguarding JIAZHI benefit; adjusting various kinds of contradictory in and out of JIAZHI; adjusting ethnical relationships in and out of JIAZHI; transmitting traditional cultural knowledge; educating JIAZHI members.Chapter four: The transmission of LIANGSHAN YI JIAZHI culture and its influence on human being. On the one hand, this part explored briefly on the concept of culture transmission, the mechanism of the transmission, the object of the transmission, and the model of the transmission. On the other hand, it discussed about the effect towards human being's intelligence and non-intelligence factors of LIANGSHAN YI JIAZHI culture during its transmission, as well as the influence on gaining scientific knowledge, human knowledge, living knowledge and techniques.Chapter five: The field investigation and analysis on thetransmission of LIANGSHAN YI JIAZHI culture. This study adopted the research methods of distributing questionnaires, deep inquiring and interviewing, joining in observation in the field, visiting indoors, etc, taking the JINGUREN JIAZHI in NINGLANG YI autonomous County in YUNNAN Province as an example, taking the LIANGSHAN YI areas and the YI nationality people as the object, doing an overall investigation, analysis and study towards the situation for the time being and the transmission of the LIANGSHAN YI JIAZHI culture in LIANGSHAN YI areas, declaring that the LIANGSHAN YI JIAZHI culture is the cornerstone for the exist and development of the LIANGSHAN YI JIAZHI society. It is the outstanding traditional culture of LIANGSHAN YI. Moreover, this chapter pointed out that people should recognize and regard the positive and passive factors of LIANGSHANYI JIAZHI culture in a rational way, that is to say, people should carry on the essence and dispose the waste. Meanwhile, people should do some adjustment, rearrangement and development towards LIANGSHAN JIAZHI culture, combining with the development of modern society, and making it play more important role.Chapter six: The culture transmission and the education choice- the transmission of the LIANGSHAN YI JIAZHI culture and the adoption as well as the elimination of the modern schools. This part illustrated briefly on the education carried out during the culture transmission, insisting that the reason why LIANGSHAN JIAZHI culture passes to now days and be still alive culture in the living practice of LIANGSHANYI people, or we may say it still play an significant role owns to the culture transmission and culture education. It explained about the cultural education of LIANGSHAN YI JIAZHI and its model as well as the evaluation. Analyzing about the situation of the co-exist and mixture of multi-culture in modern LIANGSHAN YI areas as well as the culture information contents of LIANGSHAN YI people receive and the realities of culture adaptation and culture puzzle. This chapter also thought back about the national culture transmission and the educational situation of modern schools, pointing out that the separation between the modern school education and the traditional culture education as well asthe misunderstanding and the blind spot during the educational evaluation. It put forward that the traditional culture background of LIANGSHANYI students should be considered during the modern education in the modem LIANGSHANYI areas. People should carry out and practice the outstanding traditional LIANGSHANYI culture and the way of education with multi-culture style, exploring about the thought to combine the education of LIANGSHAN YI JIAZHI culture with the modern school education.Accounting briefly about the thinking clues of the form and several contents to be emphasized again in the end of this paper.