A Study On The Funeral Ritual Dance Of The Buyi People In Luoping County, Yunnan Province

The funerary dance rite of "Luo Ping Bouyei" people is the most representativeof "Yun Nan Bouyei" terpsichorean art, As the research content of this paper, theauthor will not only based on the "Historical Article" and “Local Chorography” toanalyze its historical roots, but also combine with reality basis knowledge whichacquired by the two times of exploratory trips of visting Luo Ping county to interviewthe local wizards, folk artisan and literary and art workers.This paper based on relatedimage data and text records to analyze the funerary dance rite of "Luo Ping BouyeiNationality" and its unique cultural connotation analysis and interpretation.Withinstudy the present situation of funerary dance rite of Bouyei people, we will find outthe motility of its developing trend overall.After all there will be a Comments andSuggestions for Bouyei Nationality terpsichorean arts.The article is divided into three parts of "introduction","five chapters" and"epilogue"，structure as below:of this article, research review, research ideas andmethods.The first chapter: Collecting, observation, analyzing and research of Luo PingBouyei Nationality’s history, culture, religion, geography environment, life style andartistic achievement. Give the brief introduction of Bouyei religion and wizards forthe later research.The second chapter: Through the historical documents and literatures to analyzeand research in funeral ceremony, to extract the Bouyei funeral ceremony is differentfrom other ethnic characteristics. Using the field research method, on the currentsituation of the Bouyei funeral ceremony activity.The third chapter: the Luo Ping Bouyei funeral dance to description form andcharacteristics analysis. Summary compiled Luo Ping Bouyei funeral dance isdifferent with other national characteristic of the funeral ritual dance.The fourth chapter: According to the morphological analysis of funeral dance ofLuo Ping Bouyei, combined with culture and history, it is concluded that the culturalimplications in the dance: monkey image plot influence on Luo Ping Bouyei’s cultureand farming. Chapter5: Based on the change of the Luo Ping Bouyei funeral ceremony andritual dance today summarizes the ritual dance in the content, function and theorganization form changing from social organizations, economic mode, ideologicalconcept, this three aspects to analyze the driving force behind the changes. For thedevelopment of the Luo Ping Bouyei culture and art, Comments and Suggestions forBouyei Nationality terpsichorean arts from the angles of both the government and theliterary and art workers.