| Yi ethnic group is a typical one that retains primitive cremation among South-west ethnic minorities. Funeral is one of these important ceremonies of one's whole life which deals with corpse through kinds of symbol forms. It is a ultimate communication and a spirit dialogue between the dead people and the live ones.Funeral affect each ethnic, and it is one part of their social life and the whole culture. As the one part of the most conservative content, funeral is the culture forms of Yi ethnic group which contains the biggest inheritance value, particularly different funeral of different ethnic. They present special ethnic character and investigation value of culture. To be a kind of cultural form, funerals are shown in different way.Nowadays, most investigations focus on these fields:Yi ethnic group believe all things have spirit, eternal spirit and they worship their ancestor. The researches took the northern area of Yi residence as the objective area where people speak Sheng-zha-hua, while the investigation of Yi-nuo-hua area is weak. So this paper focus on Yi-nuo-hua area and presents the solid cultural foundation of Yi ethnic group funeral through investigating and describing the process of funeral in An zhai ping village of Lei bo country, and the writer analyzed the fire culture as the end. This paper consists of five chapters.The first one is introduction. This chapter contains meaning of the investigation, design of the investigation, trends of investigations domestic and abroad.The second one is survey. This chapter is divided into three parts history development history in Lei bo country, the family and folk activity in An zhai ping village,the definition and the explanation of ceremony.The main content of the third chapter is the funeral of Lei bo Yi ethnic group.It consists of four parts and introduces the origin form of funeral. The important part is the cremation of Lei bo Yi ethnic group. This part contains the origin, development, form, value and significance of cremation and the cremation of Tibeto-Burman ethnic.Besides. At last, is the detailed description of nursing process of the dead people, such as preparing, discussing, notifying, participating, crying, guiding, evoking, holding the procession and cremation.The fourth chapter refers to funeral cultural and significance. Presenting the concept of eternal spirit and gender consciousness in Lei bo Yi ethnic group. the writer explored the words in funeral.The fifth chapter is conclusion.On the basis of previous investigation, this paper is a field-work investigation which takes one village as the object of study with the perspective of linguistic and anthropology, and mixes the knowledge of linguistic, ethnology, folklore, anthropology and religious studies. In the process of the investigation, literature method and field survey was used together with the informal interview. The paper presented the traditional funeral in the village where Leibo Yi ethnic group settled through the description of funeral in Anzhaiping village in Leibo country, then explored the cultural intention and significance of the funeral which is belong to Leibo Yi ethnic group. |
