A Study Of Bronze Drum Custom For Miao/hmong Nationality In Zhongbao Town Nandan County

In the history,the bronze drum culture was created by the ethnic minorities in southern China.since it had the date, because of the bronze drum culture has a new form and function,it had been widely widely spread in China’s southwest ethnic groups, and derived the content of different drum customs.The ZhongBao Miao is one of the branches of the Miao nationality, Staggered situation formed between them to migrate to the South and the use of bronze drum ethnic minorities in South china.Through long-term cultural exchanges between ethnic groups, ZhongBao Miao had been gradually accepted and ultimately integrated the culture of bronze drums into themselves original cultural style and in the process of serving the people’s production and living,formed a set of bronze drum Folk custom culture.As a carrier of spirit belief, ancestor worship in the Hmong community in Fort Drum, its use has been limited to a certain ritual context, and services to specific rites.The use of bronze drum in the festival is mainly to meet people for agricultural production and proliferation, fertility desire; used in the funeral is the soul of the deceased to cut off contact with the real world, people return to normal life order.Along with the development of the times, in the custom of ZhongBao Miao drum to the declining trend. The local government in the ZhongBao Miao drum custom inheritance and protection activities in case of insufficient strength, should guide all sectors of society to the positive factors involved in the protection for intangible cultural heritage.