Yan Wen's "Wang Zu Ling Ling Zhu" Was Studied

The" YingZu LingTongJing",Yi literature,is taken out from the ancestral cave and greeted to the main festival field in the ancestor worship ceremony,a collection of 2074 words,which is collected in ancient books office in Luquan County,Yunnan.Its content is extremely rich,generally including the initial ceremony,rituals arrangement,blankets laying,sacrifice of gods;the order of each god in accordance with their status;things prepared to remove evil and dangerous;the history of Yi people,the characteristics and duty of various classes;rise,production,placement,worship of the ancestral tube;the production of ancestral idols;finally performing cult in the field and consecrate the ancestral tube.It provides a reliable basis for us to comprehensively understand the beliefs and rituals of the Yi people,and is also important to study the Yi ancient society and traditional culture.On the basis of the translation of the literature,this paper is to discuss the related custom and etiquette,and analyze its characteristics of the word and language.First of all,it briefly introduces the basic rituals of the Yi people 's ancestral ceremony and the summary of the"YingZuLingTongJing",and then interprets the text of each four lines,and annotates the important nouns and terms to collect the free translation of each chapter.Finally,it is to briefly analyze the special words in the text and summary the gods system the scriptures.Among them,the translation of the four lines is the main part of the paper and the longest one.In order to facilitate the reader,each sentence was marked with serial number,a total of 426 sentences.As to the content,this paper will be divided into three chapters for translation,including preparation before the ceremony and historical introduction,the rise of the ancestral system,the production and consecrate of ancestral tube of Yi people.Each chapter has a four-line translation in order to facilitate the reader to understand each Yi's pronunciation and significance,which also has important value for the study of Yi language vocabulary in the eastern dialect area;However,because Yi has a long history and rich connotation,in the process of translation,the author found that there are a lot of special words and syntax in the text and summed up them into the split-up word,stacked words,variability of numerals,borrowed words,variant characters and split words and sentences,etc.,added some examples in order to make the reader understand them.These special language phenomena and word habits show us the wisdom of the ancestors of the Yi people and various words and their laws of the Yi language in the processing of development and great benefit to the study of Yi development.According to the research results of the Yi academic experts and many historical records,we can learn the era of the Yi patrilineal clan,Yi traditional social structure has been divided into seven classes,and it described in detail about their rank correlation and function including its founder,the outstanding and so on in "YingZuLingTongJing".For this part of the name of the gods,in order to maintain consistency with other literature,the author adopted transliteration and tell their function and compass of competency to understand the context and also offer reference to the translation of the gods name in other works.In short,on the basis of text translation and interpretation of some more special linguistic phenomena and god culture in the text the paper is to enrich the research results of Yi literature,increase the research examples of Yi dialect literature,and give the ancestral worship and ancestor worship research reliable literature.