Moral Memory,ritual Celebration And Ethnic Culture Identity

National culture is an important part of human culture,a national identity and symbol,and a source of national spirit and national development.The identity of national culture would have a direct impact on the future direction of national development.Although the culture is intricate,there is always a main line in culture,which should be morality.Morality is the core part of culture,determining the direction of culture and distinguishing "I" and "others".There is a natural link between morality and identity.However,little attention has been paid to the roles and values of morality in national cultural identity.Based on a long-term field survey,this study adopts the multi-point ethnographic research method and puts forward for the first time that moral memory is the key point of analyzing national cultural identity.It expounds that moral memory is the memory and repetition of people's moral relationship,which has been co-constructed by the moral expectancy power in the narrative framework of religion and leaders and the moral character between people,people and collectives.Therefore,Yugur ceremonial celebrations are divided into four organic parts: man and god,man and leader,man and man,and man and collective.The influence of moral memory on national cultural identity is elaborated.Firstly,starting from religious rituals,this paper analyses the relationship between man and God,and puts forward Yugur people's inherent moral awareness between man and nature.Secondly,it classifies and combs the Leaders' worship rituals in Yugur's production and life in detail,showing the Leaders' imprint in Yugur's moral tradition.Thirdly,through the discussion of people's daily ritual behavior,it elaborates the shaping and reconstruction of people's moral memory development in daily life.Finally,on the basis of describing a series of national celebrations and analyzing their formation characteristics and development context,this paper reveals the impact of moral memory of people and collectives on people's real life.Yugur minority is a minority,and has been cut into several regions by geography.The ritual celebrations in different regions show different characteristics because of their different development status.The essence of the ritual celebrations is the influences of moral norms in different modes of production on people's moral relations.Only from the perspective of moral memory,it is recognized that moral memory is the key to depict national cultural identity.We can dig out the consistency of moral relations in different regions and production modes of Yugur nationality,and then clearly grasp its integrity.After analyzing the ritual celebrations of the Yugur people,the moral memory of the Yugur can be clearly seen.For example,their loves from nature and animals,their demands for disciplines,their desires for success,their attachments to filial piety and their collective lifes,all these things are manifested in the Yugur people's relationships among gods,people and leaders.All these connotations contain the integration process of Yugur culture and other national cultures.Its diversified and integrated development that form the present appearance of Yugur nationality.The holistic grasp of moral relations is useful to explain the integration of Yugur people with other nationalities in the process of the era's change.This process of active absorption make Yugur people keeping pace with the times and vigor forever.