A Study On The Life Awareness In Yi People's Ancient Song

Life awareness is closely connected with literature work and any piece of work is inseparable from the exploration of life value and ultimate concern on life.Yi People's Ancient Song consists of 303 different pieces of ancient songs and it's a book covering the most universal contents among Yi people till today.The Ancient Song is based on life significance showing Yi people's unique understanding and comprehension on life value and emphasizing the significance of life awareness in life.With introduction of literature analysis method,comparative research method and other cross-disciplines study approach,the paper further analyzes Yi People's Ancient Song from perspective of life awareness on the basis of aesthetic theory.The paper is divided into three parts: introduction,arguments and conclusion.The research paper comprises of the following three chapters.Chapter One: it introduces the origin and significance of Yi People's Ancient Song.Besides,through classification of current research findings of Yi People's Ancient Song,it identifies relevant definitions and briefly introduces the research collection process classifying research methods.In addition,it classifies research methods and thinking pattern and put forwards innovation points and deficiency.Chapter Two: It summarizes Yi People's Ancient Song mainly from natural environment,social environment,primary contents and characteristics of different types.The natural and social environment where Yi People's Ancient Song passes affects the inheritance and development.Its main contents include ancient-song-related folk religion,oral traditions,culture,science and technology as well as social customs.In terms of contents and characteristics of types,it discusses the real life in Yi People's Ancient Song;meanwhile,it makes brief introduction of expression techniques,structural forms and singing mode of ancient song.Chapter Three: As for life awareness in Yi People's Ancient Song,it extracts and analyzes the expressions of life awareness in ancient song and sorts out the life awareness in Yi People's Ancient Song from three aspects of reflections on life,wisdom of life and passion for life.Throughout study on these aspects,it attempts to explore the life awareness in Yi People's Ancient Song in Yi people's real lives and production activities.Chapter Four: It investigates the value of life awareness in Yi People's Ancient Song and its influences on later Yi people's poetry,in which it emphasizes the aesthetic role in Yi people's society producing significant impacts on cultivating Yi people's physical and psychological health.In addition,its ecology-ethics values provide theoretical foundations in compliance with current harmonious relationship between human and nature.Furthermore,its inheritance value means greatly for protection and development of Yi people's culture as well as reinforcement of mass cohesive force.The life awareness in ancient song produces profound influence on later Yi people's poetry.Therefore,the later generations of Yi people would combine searching-source consciousness,nature worship and souls into poetic creation.Conclusion: Yi People's Ancient Song is carrier of Yi people's society,histroy,culture and folk activities,in which its life awareness shows Yi people's respect and passion for life.It plays significant role in inheritance of Yi People's Ancient Song and it's also one important way in strengthening national cohesion and recognition.The unique life awareness not only greatly affects Yi society but also contributes to later poetic creation among Yi people.It has certain meaning by analyzing mutual relation between life awareness in Yi People's Ancient Song and Yi people's culture,which is a subject worthy of studying among academic community.