Study Of The Social Function Of The Ancient Miao Song

The Hmong is our country ancient minority, has created the bright national culture in several thousand years. Before the 1950s, the Hmong has extremely mature and the rich national language, but does not have nationality's written writing, this urged the Hmong oral literature to obtain the full development. The Hmong's ancient songs are the Hmong's culture important component, they are produced by the need of life and serve for it. The Hmong's ancient songs main social function includes: Recognizing ability, education function, entertainment function and maintenance function. The Hmong's ancient songs' social function have realized the Hmong people to the nature, the society, the human and the self-cognition, in the ancient songs sung in the process, the national spirit, the national history and the life wisdom obtained the inheritance, in the sacrificial offering ceremony, not only the Hmong's ancient songs play the amusement god and the amusement person's function, but also cause people's mood and the mood can divulge and fill a prescription, the ancient songs lyric and sing the situation to express the nationality to approve, the maintenance of social order, the standard people behavior and so on to have the unreplaceable role. However, under the new historical linguistic environment, the Hmong's ancient songs presented the form and the social function have the sudden change, the original pattern for singing and the original social function gradually fade out people's daily field of vision, their education function's attenuation, the maintenance function's strengthening and the function realized the form multiplication, caused the Hmong's ancient songs to realize the social function vicissitude and the transformation under the new historical linguistic environment.This article tries from Guizhou Province the local Hmong's ancient songs social function research,to discuss the historical characteristics of their social function vicissitude , and propose that under the new historic opportunity, the Hmong's ancient songs' inheritance and the development should maintain the national spirit essence in the foundation, realize the social function transformation by the time retrieval , display psychological strength by summoning collective emotion once more.