Dehong, The Achang Theravada Buddhist Ritual Music

The Theravada Buddhist have been connected with the local national minority in many ways since it came into Yunnan province of China in the 13th century. After decades, the religious faith of national minorities which belief the Theravada Buddhist have rooted in their national consciousness. As the study object of this article, Husa Achang national minority is one of the minorities above. Through the analysis of five ceremonies, the article explores the different formal ceremonies tone poem in the Theravada Buddhism belief background. And this has a close relation with the special living environment and culture of MangDan local inhabitant. So the goal of the article is that through the analysis of five ceremonies and the insider ceremony structure, the tone poem structure in the ceremony, the society structure and other aspects, put the Theravada Buddhist ceremony tone poem of Achang national minority into the background of China Theravada Buddhist tone poem cultural areas. According to the features of localization, reveal the special dialogue between the holy and common customs in the ceremony tone poem.The article is formed with four parts. In the preface, the author elaborates the origin, significance, current situation, object and methods of this study. In the review current situation part, the author arranges the current study situation of Achang national minority, ceremony tone poem and music ethnographies. And find something valuing researching and point out the starting point of this study. The author also elaborates the reasons of choosing study object and cases. In the study methods part, the author elaborates the theoretical support and point out the innovation point of the article.The ceremony tone poem survived in the special community and traditional culture. On the other hand, it depended and attributed of the special community and traditional culture. So in the first part, the author elaborates the history of Achang national minority and the history, the traditional culture, the Buddhism culture of MangDan county separately. Especially in the Buddhism culture of MangDan county part, the author tries to describe how the Buddhism influent and infiltrate the daily life of MangDan country in an objective way.The ceremony tone poem is an important part of ceremony. We must analysis the ceremony structure for the ceremony tone poem study. In the second part of this article, the author chooses five representative Buddhism ceremony cases in a year. And drawing on the analysis methods of ceremony in the anthropology, the author elaborates the ceremony scene, the ceremony character, the ceremony organization and so on. And this lay the groundwork for the thick description of the ceremony tone poem.The tone poem is regard as sign of ceremony. It has symbolizes in the ceremony. So in the third part, first the author describes the five representative tone poem phenomenon, and discusses the insiders– outsiders which is the function of ceremony. At last, the author raises her own idea after evaluating the"idea– conduct– sounds". The author own idea's raising is helpful"thick description"the tone poem experience of local inhabitant through analysis the factor in the tone poem conduct.In the fourth part, the author discusses the inferential comprehension of the ceremony tone poem in the Mangdan country for a further step. The author tries to analysis the ceremony tone poem produced process, and elaborates its meaning through Rice Pattern in order to interpretation the community structure relations of MangDan country. Beside, the author think the Buddhism ceremony tone poem of Achang national minority has the features of local cultural due to it is in the China Theravada Buddhism tone poem cultural areas background. At last, the author thinks ceremony tone poem reflects the local inhabitants'time outlook, sense of worth and wold outlook which between time and space two– dimensional space, accompanied with entertainment holy and common customs.