The Studying On The Ritual Structure Of Greeting The Spring Ceremony Of Huayao Yi Nationality

On the basis of the fieldwork,this thesis focuses on the Greeting Spring Ceremony of Long Wu Town,which is occupied by Yi and Han.Taking the ceremony of the town's Spring Greeting Ceremony as an example,we integrated theories of sociology,anthropology,folklore and other disciplines through narrative of process of the ceremony to study the culture symbol meanings and structure from the perspective of ethnic cultural change on Long Wu town in order to relatively systematically reveal people's right of cultural choice in the daily life level and to further explore multi-ethnic mixed region's culture generated dynamic system.With great research value,the Spring Greeting eremony is a festival activity jointly held by the Yi and the Han in Long Wu region,and it not only carries the cultural gene of Lantern Festival of the Han of the central plains,but also integrates the cultural factors of the Yi in the southwest.This thesis discusses this issue through four parts.Describing the roles played by people of the Han and foreigners in the ceremony,the first part focuses on the main structure of the spring greeting ceremony in Long Wu town in order to draw the outlines the genealogy of their development and evolution in the historical process.With the author's understanding of local cultural psychology,the second part explains the new regional worships motivation factors and explores the bridging role of the Greeting Spring Ceremony for belief systems of Yi and Han on the research of the object structure of the greeting ceremony,which firstly introduces the objective material base such as temple,aged street and theater and secondly interprets two sets of belief system on the basis of Guan Yin Temple and Wu Chang Temple.Through the description of the process of “Greeting the Gods”,“Pleasing the Gods”,“Pleasing People”,the panoramic images,combined with oral history data collected field interviews,as well as the understanding of metaphor symbol peculiar to the ritual process,the third part mainly addresses the performance of the process of the Greeting Spring Ceremony in order to clearly put forward the cultural psychologicalelements of the Huayao Yi fitting into the Han.The fourth part combines the above description of the Greeting the Spring Ceremony and the local social and historical facts to explain the moral concepts,social consciousness and historical memory that contributed to the formation of the Ritual Structure Studies have found that Greeting the Spring Ceremony is a kind of catalysis to bridge the two ethnic groups,through which the local residents' daily life and historical memory in could be reflected and local knowledge could be generated and passed on.With the same ancestors and under the rule of the unified dynasty,the two ethnic groups shared the same historical memory and a sense of community,which are basic reason why the two ethnic groups fit to each other.As a result,the Ceremony is a cultural performance in the vision of the same community consciousness.