Folk Deductive And Sacrificial Liminal Of The Umbrella Dance Of The Lanshan Yongzhou Yao Minority

Yongzhou Lanshan Yao Nationality Umbrella Dance is an original sacrifice dance of the Lanshan Yao people.It is not only the dance performance form of the ancestors of the Yao nationality,but also the emotion expression of the Yao people in long-term production and life.Therefore,the Lanshan Yao nationality umbrella dance owns a strong sacrifice of religious and local people's self-entertainment.The rich performance content and unique performance form of the dance have been deeply loved by the Yao people.It recorded the historical process of the Yao nationality from the Southward development until now and it's also the "living stone" to witness the development of the Yao Nationality's culture.The theis starting the analysis from the body structure of the Yao people's umbrella dance,the procedures,contents,movements,rhythm,formation and the stage property,musical instruments and costumes of the umbrella dance interpretation,and the umbrella dance is analyzed as a ritual ceremony folk life,andthe type of deduction of the legendary story,expounding the umbrella dance has narrative,skillful and situational characteristics to show that it has different interpretation forms and deductive purposes in different places.In the "Daochang" ceremony of the Lanshan Yao people's funeral,the umbrella dance surpassed the undead in the form of solo dance;in the blue mountain adult ceremony "degree ring" ceremony,the umbrella dance worshipped the ancestors in the form of a double dance;in the traditional culture of the Yao nationality,umbrella dance comes from entertaining in the form of group dance.Different interpretation forms and deductive purposes have formed three different and interrelated interpretation spaces,namely material space,consciousness space and cultural space.As a part of the Yao people's sacrifice dance,it has a certain sacrifices.In the "Daochang" ceremony and the "degree ring" ceremony,the umbrella dance not only has the purpose of worshipping ancestors and gods,but also plays a role to convey the spiritual needs to Yao's ancestors gods and the Yao people.In the process of the communication,umbrella dancers are often easy to enter the state of oblivion,that is,the threshold state the scholars often said.Before entering the threshold state,special rituals such as "Daochang" and "degrees" are needed as the threshold space to transit the umbrella dancers from a space,time and social state to another state.In this transition process,there are three landmark phases,the separation phase(before the threshold),the threshold phase(threshold),and theaggregation phase(after the threshold).In the threshold phase,the umbrella dancer enters a virtual space that exists only in the spiritual world.This space is ambiguous,in this ambiguous space,the systems and ranks in secular social life do not exist.Umbrella dancers can open their hearts and dance with the God,telling the gods their wishes,so that the soul can be soothed and relaxed.After experiencing the threshold phase,the pressure and negative emotions of the umbrella dancers in the secular social life have been relieved to some extent,and the recognition of self and secular social structure has been improved.Umbrella Dance is a Lanshan Yaozu sacrifice dance with a distinctive Yao Taoism.The folk interpretation and sacrificial threshold are determined by the religious nature and performance function.Umbrella dance is a kind of sacrifice dance for god and Yao people to entertain and it's also a kind religion and cultural symbol with symbolism meaning.