Literature And Life:Anthropology Study Of Lisu Oral Literature In Dechang Area

Sichuan Dechang Lisu belongs to a branch of Di Qiang.Their ancestors is from the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau on the gradual migration down.Later they migrated to the Sichuan Basin,first lived in the Minjiang River Basin,and later gradually migrated to the western Sichuan Anning River and the Yalong River Basin.During the period of the Three Kingdoms,the descendants of Di Qiang migrated to the Sichuan-Yunnan direction.During the Ming and Qing Dynasties,the Lisu people who moved in the Yalong River Basin continued to migrate westward due to the ban on the banditry and the pressure of survival,and arrived at the Nujiang River in Yunnan today.Who Migrated northward settled in today's Sichuan Dechang,Yanbian,Miyi,Huidong and other counties.Sichuan Dechang Lisu as a group of people from the majority nation for hundreds of years,its survival and cultural patterns have large difference from Yunnan Lisu.Oral literature is an important part of the folk culture of the Dechang Lisu.It mainly includes myths,legends,songs,stories,proverbs and jokes,which have been passed down by word of mouth and are closely related to the people's life.They are an important part of the Lisu ethnic culture,which have reflect the historical and cultural,production and life,folk customs,social psychology and ideological values of Lisu Dechang and which have a very important position and significance.The number of Dechang Lisu people is very limited when they arrived in Dechang.In order to survive,they worked hard and opened up a piece of heaven and earth.Their oral literature affected by the Han and Yi because of living with Han and Yi to some extent.Based on the theory of folklore and the related theories and methods of anthropology,this paper takes the oral literature of Dechang Lisu as the research object,and makes a overall view of the Lisu culture through the oral literature on the basis of documentary records and Fieldwork.On the one hand to show the basic development situation and type traits of Lisu oral literature;On the other hand,the oral literature is placed in the corresponding life scene to observe,so as to analyze the relationship between the Lisu oral literature and the people's folk life,reveal the function and value of Lisu oral literature,and finally explore how to inherit and protect the Lisu ethnic culture in the context of today's globalization.This chapter mainly includes five chapters: The first chapter is the introduction,which mainly summarizes the present situation of oral literature research at home and abroad and the oral Describe the social background of local Lisu oral literature of Dechang Lisu.The second chapter mainly focuses on the special ethnic groups of Dechang Lisu,to pay attention to its historical memory and the context of life,the existing historical materials and people oral traditions to combing their migration history,and describe the social background of local Lisu oral literature.The third Chapter focus on the development of oral literature of Dechang Lisu and the type of characteristics,through the documentary records and Fieldwork,combing the development context of oral culture of Dechang Lisu,mainly on the local scholars and the national cultural elite for mining,finishing Lisu oral literature efforts to describe the type of oral literature and the two characteristics of the Lisu oral literature;the fourth chapter will be place Lisu oral literature in the specific scene of folk life,Analyze the relationship between literature and life and its functions,showing a colorful picture of literature and life.The fifth chapter summarizes the function and value of the oral literature of the Dechang Lisu people,and discusses the inheritance and protection of the Lisu oral literature in the background of the current economic globalization.