A Study On The Cultural Performance And The Identity Of The Ethnic People Of The Yunnan Minzu Villages

As one of the windows to show the minority groups' culture in Yunnan Province,Yunnan Nationalities Village overlays Yunnan's multi-nationality cultures and villages,and combines the minority groups' life style,architecture,music,dancing and religion with the landscape of lakes and hills.The artistic performance is a consuming text inspired by tourism and an option based upon the minority cultural sight-seeing.Yunnan Nationalities Village was formerly a by-product of economic loss in the polder of Dianchi Lake.Thanks to the consumption age,it has now become a stage for the exhibition of Yunnan minority culture and a space for consumers' observation and imagination.Minority arts and cultures,as the life styles of Yunnan minority groups,are re-packaged for the sake of tourists' needs and have become a new consuming text.By the means of performance with landscape and stage,Yunnan's minority cultures are expressed and exhibited.What's more,the culture for performance is confined in the village.Although the culture has been transplanted and gone far away from the its birthplace,the culture shown in the village is a real secondary scenery including the genuine cultural subject and reengineering at a different place,because the authentic existence of cultural subject-the villagers.The villagers come to the city from the countryside.They represent their culture and go along with the advancement of Yunnan minority tourism.The villagers have commenced to look at themselves as a member of their own minority group,in the communication with the different culture.In the course of reflection,the villagers have also commenced to learn and evaluate their own culture and reinforced their minority identity,which wake up their cultural self-consciousness and inspire them to re-create their culture.Yunnan nationalities village protect the diversity of Yunnan's multi-nationality culture,by moving the old things onto the stage,which has been gradually understood and accepted by people.