| The Pumi ethnic group is one of the special minority ethnic groups in Southwest China.They mainly gather in Nujiang Prefecture and Lijiang City in Yunnan Province,and a small number of Pumi people live in Sichuan Province.The Pumi ethnic group is a minority with a long history.The Pumi people have gone through a long history from the nomadic era to the farming era,and created rich and colorful oral literature,such as myths,stories,legends,and ballads.Most of these literary works are passed down orally from generation to generation,and are constantly enriched and enriched in the process of transmission.As a mountain ethnic group,the Pumi people live in a geographical environment with high mountains and dense forests,inhabiting a wide variety of animals,so this rich and colorful animal resources have also become the material basis for the Pumi people to survive.Therefore,animals have also become an important part of Pumi people’s life.Stories are the most widely circulated literary category among the Pumi people.They are huge in number and draw on a wide range of materials,ranging from the astronomy and the universe,the sun,the moon and the stars,down to the people at dawn,insects,fish,birds and beasts,almost all of which are in the perspective of Pumi people.In the long history of human society,animals are closely related to human life.The animal stories of the Pumi people are particularly rich.Many animal stories use anthropomorphic techniques to express the socialization of the animal world.At the same time,they also pay attention to the description of animal characters and animal habits The description reflects the unique emotion of the Pumi people towards animals.This article will start from the perspective of folk narrative,use narratology,folk literature and other related theories to analyze Pumi animal stories,and combine image analysis,motifs,archetypes and other methods for further interpretation.First classify the Pumi animal stories,then summarize the themes,then look at the narrative structure and layout of the animal stories under the theme,and finally talk about the value and function of the Pumi animal stories.The main layout of the paper is as follows:The first chapter mainly classifies the Pumi animal stories,paving the way for the subsequent analysis of narrative themes and characteristics.The determination of the types of Pumi animal stories is mainly based on the content of the story.According to the characters appearing in the whole story,it is divided into three types:pure animal type,human and animal type,and heterogeneous marriage.The second chapter explores the narrative themes of the Pumi animal stories based on the types of animal stories,mainly including the hero theme,the theme of gratitude and the theme of ethics.And these three themes correspond to the narrative types in the previous chapter: most of the hero-themed stories are of pure animal type,and the gratitude-themed stories are of the relationship between humans and animals.However,the ethical themes are reflected in the stories of pure animal type and human and animal type.The third chapter studies the narrative structure of Pumi animal stories based on the second chapter.When telling folk tales with heroic themes,they often present a narrative structure of binary opposition,while stories with the theme of repaying gratitude mostly present a linear advancing structure.The fourth chapter,based on the first three chapters,analyzes and summarizes a social function of Pumi animal storytelling,which plays a constructive role in the overall culture of Pumi.This article takes Pumi animal stories as the protagonists,analyzes the types,themes,and structures of animal stories from the perspective of folk narratives from the perspective of onlookers,explores the status and value of Pumi animal stories in Pumi literature,and analyzes the characteristics of Pumi animal stories.Summarize the cultural connotation and social function. |
