Ceremony And Social Order

As a small ethnic group without words but with its own ethnic language,the AKS of Hani ethnic group have built up their own unique belief system,life etiquette and festival customs in the long history of development.Based on the belief of immortality of soul,the AKS of Hani ethnic group in Mengsong village formed a specific mode of a series of funeral activities,such as death concept,ritual process and collective assistance.The study first discusses the world outlook on both sides of the Straits and its underlying logic,that is,the outlook on death and the outlook on soul shape their evaluation criteria for different types of death,and then determine the level and scale of different funerals,while the communication and separation of "cross strait world" are realized through Bimo and Zhaimen.After that,the whole funeral ceremony process is divided into three kinds of funeral taboo customs: the beginning and the end ceremony,the burial ceremony and the post burial ceremony and the behavior taboo,the object taboo and the diet taboo.The deceased achieved the status improvement in the nature of identity through the funeral separation ceremony,while the living achieved the filling and reconstruction of social network with the help of the ceremony field.In the process of ceremony,funeral taboos play the functions of restraint,integration and coordination.Finally,through the analysis of the mode of collective assistance in the ceremony,the author thinks that the funeral strengthens the social connection within the village or between the owner and the main body,that is,through the collective assistance of labor and capital,the owner and the main body are connected as a whole,forming a mechanism of labor and capital storage and extraction.In the process of shaping each other,the conceptual order and institutional ritual procedure constructed by the AKS of Hani ethnic group based on the classification system have realized the reconstruction and reproduction of the endogenous social order in the villages.At the same time,the collective mutual aid model integrates and mobilizes the members of the village through strong emotional connection and strong community memory.