A Study On Epic Cha Mu Of Yi People And The Thinking Of Yin Yang And Five Elements

The thinking of yin yang and five elements contains in Chinese traditional culture. The thinking of yin yang and five elements not only widely spread in Han area, but also affect the minority culture. Go through the thinking of yin yang and five elements, the researchers often focus on Han culture. It is not often to study the thinking of yin yang and five elements of minority. The epic birthed in human's childhood. The epic used the myth way to record the human history and though. Epic Yi record the Yi people's explanation of origin of the universe, which contains the thinking of yin yang and five elements.Previous study of the epic Yi focused on many epic, paying more attention to the history, beliefs and ethics of the Yi people. However, a separate study on Cha Mu is a little. And the manuscript of Bimojing, which is kept in Bimo's hand, is studied less. On the basis of previous studies, this paper use field surveys, literature and philosophy, from the perspective of yin yang elements to study Cha Mu of Chuxiong and Honghe region.In addition to the introduction, the full text is divided into four chapters. According to the research material of Cha Mu , which is from the writer came to the Chuxiong and Honghe automation in Yunnan province to research , the first chapter gives a new explanation of Cha Mu.. The second chapter discusses the Cha Mu embodied in the outside show. It makes a conclusion of the origin and usages of the thinking of yin yang and five elements of Cha Mu. And it gives a new diea of shaped eye people that origin from the symbol of yin yang. Part III and IV respectively introduce the causes and social worth of the thinking of yin yang and five elements .The origin of the thinking of Yin Yang and five elements of Cha Mu has passed the the culture crash with Han people. In stone and bronze times, the ancient thinking and the Han factor permeated the Yi people cultural. In pre-qin and Qin dynasty, the yin and yang thinking of qiang people and the Zhou Yi made the embryonic form of the yin and yang thinking of Yi people. During the Han dynasty, Wei dynasty and the Jin dynasty, the combination of the thought of witchcraft and the effect of Taoism urged the development of the thinking of Yin Yang and five elements of Cha Mu. Since the Tang and Song dynasty, Nanzhao government created the new chart of the god, and the effect of Bimojiao, Yi people has molded the characteristic yin and yang elements thinking. Which everything can be divided into male and female, and five elements can be companied with five directions and five colors. The thinking of yin yang and five elements of Cha Mu is also used in Yi people's daily life. The thinking of life and death, ten animal calendars and torch ceremony contain the thinking of yin yang and five elements.To sum up, the thinking of yin yang and five elements of Cha Mu is not only one part of Chinese ancient philosophy, but also is the vivid show of Yi people's world ideas. Just under this kind of world ideas, Yi people created the miracle of the ten month sun calendars, which makes the whole world amazing.