A Study On The Rituals Of Nie Su Festival Dragon In Yi And

Offering the dragon is a sacrifice culture phenomenon widespread in China, because of different geo cultural factors and connotation of ritual forms have some differences,compared in the middle and southern area of Yi niesu branch of offering sacrifices to the dragon’s most popular offering sacrifices to the Dragon ceremony,. ceremony and other parts of a larger difference, has certain research value. This paper takes the cultural change, ethnic identity, religious ceremony and related theory as the core, related concepts using Interpretative Anthropology, based on field,investigation,. the Nie Su branch of offering sacrifices to the Dragon ceremony was the "deep description". Select typical niesu offering sacrifices to the dragon, and reflects the Nie Su branch of offering sacrifices to the Dragon ceremony difference Ma Li Shu Cun and pony village as the research object, subject, the contrast in the ceremony of intermediary, places, objects, process. Then to the big Yi history, culture,and regional history as the background, origin, the long Festival ceremony ritual function, change of rites conducted a detailed inquiry.This paper also Yi niesu long festival in the "dragon" and the concept of Yi culture, Han culture of dragon carries on the contrast analysis, that of offering sacrifices to the dragon worship is not long, but the typical agricultural sacrifices and ancestors worship, to the tree as the intermediary, but in the process of cultural fusion concept changes gradually into the offering sacrifices to the dragon dragon the ritual culture of offering sacrifices to the dragon; Nie Su formation time was verified, the Tang and Song Dynasties is the period of formation of Yi layout, Nie Su offering dragon ceremony formed no later than the yuan and Ming, Qing after most of the area affected by the Han culture is larger; offering dragon ceremony of cultural transmission, ethnic identity, faith life function of Nie Su groups out is a microcosm of culture belief, Su Nie; rapid spread of globalization today, culture Su Yi Nie belief shocks, dragon worship ceremony is experiencing a process of adjustment, adaptation of niesu long Festival ceremony, connotation, function, culture and change to carry on the discussion, has the important theory and the practical significance.