An Ethical Study Of The Traditional View Of Death Of The Dai In Xishuangbanna

The issue of death is one of the major problems in life.It is closely related to the meaning and value of life.People’s different attitudes towards death have formed different views of death.Different views of death are influenced by different cultures,and show through different forms of funeral rites.Dai people living in banna,under the influence of primitive religious culture,Confucian ethical culture and buddhist culture,formed a unique death-friendly ceremony,namely end-of-life care ceremony,memorial ceremony and memorial ceremony,showing a strong religious view of death.The dai people’s view of death has important ethical values,among which,it embodies the dai people’s ethical feelings of rebirth and light death,the wise choice of the end of life,and contains the ecological ethical wisdom that is worthy of our reference.This paper is divided into three parts:introduction,text and conclusion.The introduction mainly expounds the basis of topic selection,research status,research methods and the framework of the paper.The text is divided into the following three parts:The first part:the foundation of the dai death view,which is the combination of primitive religion and foreign culture.First of all,the nature of dai’s concept of death is discussed.To die without dying is the essence of dai’s concept of death.Secondly,it discusses the cultural background of dai’s death view,which is a combination of diverse cultures and influenced by primitive religion,Buddhism and Confucianism.Finally,the theoretical basis of dai death view is discussed.Dualism is the theoretical basis of their death view,which is mainlv manifested in the dai people’s negatio:n of the ultimate nature of death,their belief in the concept of cyclic time and their attitude towards death.The second part:dai people treat death ceremony.First,discuss the dai people’s end-of-life ceremony.Dai people’s end-of-life ceremonies show concern for the end-of-life patients,mainly through some rituals to the hopeless treatment of patients with psychological counseling,and then alleviate the suffering of patients and anxiety about death.Secondly,discuss the dai nationality’s memorial ceremony.Dai people’s series of sincere and polite memorial ceremony is actually a generalization of death,which on the one hand alleviates the grief of the relatives of the dead,and on the other hand shows the sincerity between people.Finally,discuss the dai nationality’s memorial ceremony.Dai people’s memorial ceremony is the link of communication between man and god.They express their thoughts and concerns for the dead through a series of memorial ceremonies.The third part:the ethical value of the dai people’s view of death.This paper discusses the ethical feelings of dai nationality’s rebirth and light death,the wise choice of the end of life and the ecological ethical wisdom derived from the understanding of death.The conclusion,through summarizing the whole text,further reveals the ethical value of the dai people’s concept of death.