The Cultural Interpretation On Song Of Tima In West Hunan

As the unique ceremony songs of Tujia in western Hunan, song of Tima passed onsuch aspects as literature, dance, music, faith and so on, which has been included inthe list of national intangible cultural heritage of year2008as folk literature. Itgradually become the focus of hot spots. This thesis makes song of Tima as an object ofstudy and makes performance form, lyrics theme connotation and the dual form of thetext as the point. It discusses cultural trait of song of Tujia Tima from themulti-dimensional perspective.On performance form, song of Tujia Tima reserved the relative form of the singlewhich is based on households as a unit. Meanwhile, because of unceasing seepage ofconsumption context, the way it exists gradually evolves into the show of publicparticipation and performance arts from single family performance. Ladder of careeralso evolves into overlapping double existing of wizards and actor from single wizard.Therefore, the mix of the characteristics of the primitive religious ceremony and themodern stage performance gradually become traits of song of Tujia Tima.Through the text analysis on songs of Tujia, it could know admiration which Tujiapeople show to their ancestral gods. Before religious rites or during religious rites,people will honor the heart, for the gods can play a role of exorcism and blessing, whichreflects the characteristics of The spirit of worship and dependency. The migration ofTujia and the text descriptions of folk life fundamentally embodied positive andoptimistic spirit to life after a series of adamancy and fearless.Because Tujia is a nationality which only has language without words, so theinheritance of song of Tujia is often passed down by mouth, which belongs to the natureof oral folk literature. Basically, its expression pattern shows oral language expression,the day-to-day content expression and rhetoric expression of diversification. However, italso has religious literature with the original mysterious characteristics. In the process ofceremony, it also conveys interpersonal communication,intrapersonal communicationand the original mysterious characteristics. From the expression formally, it reflects theduality of traits.