| Folk literature and writer literature constitute two worlds of literature,and are two major branches in the history of literature development.In recent decades,the academic community has gradually increased its attention to folk literature and has begun to collect and organize its information in a comprehensive manner.Relevant results show that there are a large number of literary texts transmitted orally in the ethnic minority communities in southern Yunnan and Guangxi,mainly includes two styles: verse style and prose style.It mainly adopts three ways of expression: narration,singing,and combination of speaking and singing,showing a relatively complete functional system.It is worth noting the stylistic division of prose style and verse style.Generally,they belong to different fields of performance.Prose literary works are spoken orally during daily gatherings or field breaks,and are widely spread as textbooks;verse literary works are dedicated to clergy by combining chanting,singing,and chanting at specific ceremonial venues ——performance during ritual activities such as funeral,ancestor worship and disaster relief.The two genres are different,but they are intertwined in content.In addition to the live text,they also have solid texts,including ritual texts and non-ritual texts that have been collated.The main relation between ritual and text is that ritual is a combination of behavior,manifested as a mixture of various artistic factors such as poetry,music and dance;text is a literary expression of ritual activities,which is expressed as a rhythmic performance because it is born of sacred ritual activities described.This article has three main contents.First,it summarizes and discusses the folk literature works of the various ethnic minorities in southern Yunnan and Guangxi,and categorizes them in terms of their subject content and performance fields.Second,existence form and mode of transmission,analyze the evolution of ritual literature to non-ritual literature and the characteristics of early literature;Third,according to the constituent elements of ritual activities,the living state of ritual literature isreconstructed to reveal the performance field of ritual literature,the formation process of folk festivals,and the basic laws of ethnic psychological identity.The main point of the article is that the ceremony is considered to be the field of generation and spread of the folk literature of the ethnic minorities in southern Yunnan and Guangxi.The primary function of literary works is to serve ritual activities,so it has its utility.Literature has different ritual functions in different ritual performance fields.The disappearance of each ritual activity will cause the corresponding ritual literature to disappear or change-it exists in another literary form.Ritual activities are an important criterion for stylistic differentiation.There is an important way to protect and inherit minority folk literature,which is to reconstruct ritual literature according to the constituent elements of ritual activities. |
