Study On The Culture Of Dong Festival For ’Yu’ Branch Of Yao People In Guizhou

Culture has the dual characteristics of internalization in the heart and externalization in the form,and so does the festival culture.The more the society develops and progresses,the more people’s inner culture also highlights its extraordinary strength.It is not only an important manifestation of a country’s soft power,but also an important source and inexhaustible motive force of a nation’s internal cohesion and creativity.Dong Festival,the traditional festival culture for ‘Yu’branch of the Yao people in Guizhou is an important part of the cultural soft power of the ethnic group.It is also the essence of the nation inherited from generation to generation,and the link to maintain the ethnic relationship.What’s more,it is a unique place to maintain the distinctive nature of its ethnic group.The traditional year-old festival and Dong Festival for ‘Yu’ branch of the Yao nationality are the celebration of the harvest of ‘Yu’ branch of the Yao people,the remembrance of their ancestors,and the Thanksgiving festival of their ancestors when they are old,showing the belief concept of the ancestor worship of ‘Yu’ branch of Yao nationality.They also reflect their values,outlook on life,production and living conditions and spiritual outlook.The ancestors of Yao nationality’s ‘Yu’ branch moved several times before they settled down,and now they mainly live in Raohe Village of Duyun and Heba Village of Majiang.It can be said that Dong Festival is the traditional culture shared by Yao people’s ‘Yu’ branch in these two places.According to historical documents,the unique culture of Dong Festival of Yao nationality’s ‘Yu’ branch has a history of more than 600 years ago,and its connotation characteristics remain basically unchanged.However,under the influence of the rapid development of modernization and foreign culture,many traditional cultural customs in Dong Festival have been affected and changed in different degrees since the reform and opening-up,especially in the lastten or twenty years,and under the influence of the rapid development of modernization and foreign culture.As the most grand and grand traditional festival of the "Yu" branch of Yao people in Guizhou,the Dong Festival has had an important influence on the spirit and life of "Yu" branch,and it is also a so important symbol of their inner self-identification that the local has been a saying that He who doesn’t celebrate the Dong festival doesn’t belong to "Raojia" people.In recent years,the Dong festival culture of the "Yu" branch has gradually attracted the attention of the outside world,also been known and understood by more and more people because of its uniqueness different from that of other branches of Yao people.While receiving attention from the outside world,to create the uniqueness and attraction of the national festival culture,the local government and the elites of "Yu" branch are committed to the protection,inheritance and develop the festival culture.Based on this,the festival culture began to show some changes.For example,during the festival,the ancestor worship ceremony,festival taboos,costumes,festival food and cultural activities are different from the past.In this process,in addition to the changes of the festival culture,the mood of the local people is changing.Therefore,the protection,inheritance and development about the culture of Dong festival is particularly worthy of in-depth thinking,which is of great significance and value in the current protection of traditional national culture.In this study,Raohe Village in Duyun and Heba Village in Majiang,which are clustered by "Yu" branch of Yao people,are the field sites to research;and the Dong festival culture is taken as the research object.For this study,it’s to analyze the history,inheritance,changes and problems of the festival culture,to Clarify the development status of the local traditional national culture,to show the uniqueness of the festival culture of "Yu" branch in the two places,and to point out the problems and deficiencies in the protection,inheritance and development of the festival,to analyze the reasons.Wht’s more,this paper is going to demonstrate the development trend of the festival culture and countermeasures.Analyzing and discussing the inheritance and change of the winter festival culture of the "Yu" branch of Yao people in Guizhou,the study supplements the domestic deficiencies of the Dong festival culture of "Yu" branch,and provides some reference for relevant academic research.At the same time,in terms of practice,it also has some guiding significance for the tourism development of local traditional national culture.In the process of research,under the perspective of ethnology,use the field research methods such as literature research and interviews,participation observation,etc.,and obtain much first-hand information,and strive to use the theory and method of ethnology to conduct research on the basis of objective facts.In addition,qualitative research method and comparative research method are used in this study to further elaborate.