Text Model And Ethnic Identity--Traditions Building And Resuming Of Pangwang Festival In Shuibin

Panhu mythology is the first ancestor mythology of Yao nationality which spreads the earliest with the longest time and the widest region. It consists of Panhu dog mythology, Qianjiatong legend and cross-sea legend. As the sacred oral-accounting history of Yao nationality, Panhu mythology strengthens the self- approval of Yao nationality; therefore it becomes the influential culture signifier with which this ethnicity distinguishes from others. It contains " multi-elements of ethnicity identity", at the same time, it constructs and explains ethnicity, ethnicity history, ethnicity identity and ethnicity border, incorporating them into an organic whole and strengthening human identity and belonging consciousness in the ethnic group constantly.Taken Shuibin Village in Gongcheng, the autonomous county of Yao nationality, as an example, this thesis describes how Panhu mythology develops into a sacrificial and redeem-a-vow-to-a-god ceremony, which is molded into a traditional festival finally in order to bring to light the culture background in which nation/Yao nationality, the core strength/the edge strength of Yao nationality, as writing people, mold the holiday texts with their intentions. Therefore, we can see that behind ethnic identity and inter-ethnic writing, each interest group utilizes resources, and causes the contention of texts. At the same time this thesis also analyses the deep influence which tourist economy exert on ethnicity identity, ethnic cultural rejuvenation, ethnicity reconstruction, etc, at the present time when tourism is developing constantly.