Yi "to Persuade Cry By" Annotation And Analyze The Situation With The Word

The scripture of encouraging to wail at funeral is one of The scriptures about wailing for the souls of the departed, which is recited by Beimao, in ceremony of encouraging to wail at traditional funeral. And it is recited for leading relatives to yearn for departed. The ceremony of encouraging to wail is held on the evening in the second day of the funeral, which is held after rounding the funeral field, before the ceremony to catch the happiness. So the ceremony of encouraging to wail is important on the whole funeral.There are great value in The scripture of encouraging to wail. Such as figures of speech, the viewpoint of life and death, folk custom and philology. This essay will try to translate the scripture into Chinese, and then give the explanatory. Beside this, I will try to analysis how the scripture used the characters.In the translate part of this essay, I used the dictionary to find every meaning of characters used by scripture. And then ask for many experts to explain the difficulties.Besides translating the scripture, this essay make further effort to analysis how to use the characters in it. Because the characters’ use is closely connected with the methods to produce characters, I analysis it firstly. Experts and learners who research Yi ethics have explored deeply in methods to produce Yi characters. But their opinions are divergent. I analysis this question comprehensive, and get a conclusion that Yi characters may be produced by pictographic, explanatory, associative, pictophmetic, transposition. And most of Yi characters produced by pictographic, explanatory.The methods to use Yi characters are the special rules shaped in the use of Yi characters. It include variant forms of characters, borrowed words and the symbols which take places of characters. There are six reasons to produce variant forms of Yi characters. Firstly, at the start time to produce characters, the producers may use different methods to represent the same meaning. Secondly, there are different images on the same thing. Thirdly, the pronunciation of Yi language in different regions is different. Fourthly, when copy the scripture, Beimao usually change the strokes of Yi characters. Fifthly, the writing styles of Beimao are different. Sixthly, because Yi characters have undergo a long history, the characters are symbolic, and old characters are like pictures. In conclude, though variant forms of characters have disadvantages to read, it have advantages to explore the origin of Yi characters, and it also good for identify versions of scripture.In the scripture of encouraging to funeral, there are a great deal of loan characters. Analysis these loan characters deeply, and will find these characters don’t use the origin characters. Then this method of using characters are called borrowed words. The borrowed words in the scripture of encouraging to funeral can be composed by borrowed words with same pronunciation and borrowed words with similar pronunciation.In the scripture of encouraging to funeral, there are many symbols which take places of characters. Most of these symbols replace the adjective, and strengthen the state to polish.