A Study On View Of Nature In Yunnan Ethnic Minorities' Folk Literature

View of nature in the dissertation contains concepts in two fields, one is view of nature on nature of entity, it points at Yunnan Ethnic Minorities' view of godly nature and material nature in the research; the other is view of nature on nature of non-entity, it points at Yunnan Ethnic Minorities' view of human nature in the research. People's view of nature concerns the relations between man and nature, in today's obvious ecological crisis, We can get some enlightment from Yunnan Ethnic Minorities' view of nature, to adjust the relations between man and nature, relations among people, and relations between man and society.Yunnan Ethnic Minorities have never been far away from nature, they are always being together with nature harmoniously and happily, and they have unique wisdom when they deal with the relations between man and nature. Yunnan Ethnic Minorities'Folk Literature are the works which have ecological origin, they lie in Yunnan Ethnic Minorities'life world, and reflect free model of their life, and their most natural and authentic living world, they are cohesion of Yunnan Ethnic Minorities' wisdom and spirit. Yunnan Ethnic Minorities' Folk Literature are studied from ecological and eco-criticism perspective to hackle their view of nature, which will give a lot of important enlightenments and reference value to contemporary people who lost their double homeland of substance and spirit; The research on Ethnic Minorities'ecological view highlights room of new value and significance of Yunnan Ethnic Minorities' Folk Literature at new time.As the first part of the dissertation, the Introduction discusses the origin and purpose of the research, then makes out the concepts between "Folk Literature" and "Yunnan Ethnic Minorities' Folk Literature" and defines the connotation of "nature" and "view of nature", the connotation of "nature" has double meaning, one is nature of entity, which includes natural objects and environment; the other is nature of non-entity, i.e., nature with philosophical meaning, which means the object's authentic state and nature or doing things naturally. Accordingly, the connotation of "view of nature" also breaks cognitive limitations of object-based thought, it is developed into another "view of nature" with non-object-based thought that is man's natural life style and attitude to complies with nature and not being disturbed, this is a theoretical base with innovative significance in the part of View of Human Nature. The final part of the introduction includes the research status, theoretical background, research object, methods and ways.Centering on the nature and the relations between man and nature in literature, the main body of the text hackles Yunnan Ethnic Minorities' Folk Literature according to the diachrony and synchrony, examines view of nature in Yunnan Ethnic Minorities'Folk Literature in all ways, starting from philosophical meanings of nature of entity and nature of non-entity, and divides the research contents and objects into three parts, they are View of Godly Nature, View of Material Nature, View of Human Nature. The part of View of Godly Nature regards holy, mysterious and authoritative nature as the research object, and draws out nature worship that ancient ancestors wanted to stay in harmony with nature and totem worship that ancient ancestors wanted to fuse with nature, they are Yunnan Ethnic Minorities' earliest view of nature to adore and revere nature; In discussing View of Material Nature, Creation myths and epics in Yunnan Ethnic Minorities' Folk Literature are first analyzed from eco-criticism perspective to draws out the cognition of ontology of Yunnan Ethnic Minorities' primitive people on the universe, the world and natural species. The analysis also draws out their myths in which man originate from nature and their ecological views with thoughts of evolution. From the relations between matter and me in Yunnan Ethnic Minorities' Folk Literature, their view of nature, their natural aesthetic, and their ecological ethic are traced. Yunnan Ethnic Minorities' view of nature emphasizes man's dependence on nature. Their aesthetic notion can be understood from two perspectives:in terms of individual nature, man and nature melt into and resonate on each other; in terms of overall nature, man and nature are unified into one. Their ecological ethic intensifies loving of universe; The discussion of View of Human Nature starts from philosophical meaning of nature of non-entity, which refers to naturalness, true nature or working naturally. In detail, it then describes life awareness and poetic survival state exposed under human nature. Every Yunnan Ethnic Minority lives in his harmonious and beautiful home where nature, god and human are in one, where their spirit is free, where life is revered. They work in comply with time, sing at all times, and their life is a one with artistic taste, and one with ecological aesthetics.The peroration sums up view of nature of Yunnan Ethnic Minorities, discusses its value and practical significance. Yunnan Ethnic Minorities' view of nature is ecological living wisdom which forms naturally in their life, and a kind of authentic view of nature that man and nature, man and society, man and themselves are in harmonious unification, and through their view of nature at all time which run the awareness of ecological entirety that man can't be separated from nature at any time and the intersubjective ideas that man and nature infiltrates each other. In linking theory with practice, the peroration draws out ecological aesthetic in Yunnan Ethnic Minorities' view of nature which makes us feel nature again from aesthetic way and return to nature; Combining ecological ideas in Yunnan Ethnic Minorities' view of nature, it points out a way to return to hometown for people who have lost their material and spiritual homeland.