Torch Festival Of The Yi

By studying on the traditional folk festival Torch Festival of Shilin County, Yunnan Province, the study found that, ethnic minority folk culture does not disappear with development of political systems, social and cultural changes. Instead, a new folk festivals and cultural regeneration give to birth. In this study, it takes the Culture Change Theory as the core, using anthropological concepts to explain the Torch Festival on the basis of field surveys. By The analysis of historical time and space of the Torch Festival of Yi People, it reveals its unique culture, as well as the "mechanism " which disappears in the process and regenerates later.The conclusions are as follows:The tradition should not be simply abandoned. In the village communities which still takes subsistence farming as the main means of living, the tradition likes blood, is not easily cut. The tradition linked with people's daily lives together, which is as natural as eating. The vitality that tradition embodied today, because it still needs to meet some people, this realization of the need to meet with the social and historical development of the ever-changing, also can be called a traditional re-creation.Use the thick description,After the fieldwork, the writer found that ethnic identity and the traditional re-creation are intertwined, in the traditional re-creation of the city to give new meaning to the traditional.The course of cultural change of the Torch Festival of Shilin Sani branch is influenced by social change and can be divided into three phases: during the original of the Torch Festival of traditional culture; special period "missing" the Torch Festival culture; the new era,"reversion" in Torch Festival culture.Outside culture, especially the traditional tourism has strong impact on Sani community, mainly shows the intervention of the structure of infiltration. In the farming-based civilization, the tourism industry, as the representative of the types of modern industry, added. But in its essence, most of the changes are limited in the traditional material culture in the Sani area, showing the traditional way of life and production methods change. However, the ethnic spirit of the fundamental attributes of the core, as well as on behalf of a national cultural characteristics of the areas of popular culture are rarely truly touched, but had not been subverted cut off. Of course, in this process, Part of the old traditional model of material culture will be eroded by the collapse or even disappear. However, culture is a dynamic composition, a factor which itself has changed, has its own laws of development and recycling. Is a historical inevitability of the rise, traditional in this process has also undergone a natural development and replacement, to achieve their own background in the new era of creative representation.Shilin Torch Festival of the morphology of the two kinds of text read-"original text" and the "reconstruction of the text." In reality, the development of these two texts has shown a certain degree of "combining", the traditional way in a new creation. Torch Festival achieved a resurrection.