Research On Indigenous Knowledge Of Bayanwendur Region Transhumance Practice In Alukhorqin Banner,Inner Mongolia

During the thousands of years of development of the Chinese nation,people of various ethnic groups living in different regions have jointly created splendid and diverse ecological cultures in the process of adapting to their ecological environment.Local knowledge is the survival skills and ecological wisdom accumulated by people living in a particular region in the process of generation and environment adjustment.With the rapid development of economy and modern science and technology,human’s excessive and unsustainable use of resources has caused a serious ecological crisis,and environmental problems have become an important issue of concern all over the world.People of all ethnic groups have created harmonious and symbiotic ecological knowledge in long-term production and life practice,and provide important schemes for ecological management in current ethnic areas.Nomadism is one of the oldest ways of living for human beings.The survival wisdom of "living by water and grass" and "swimming and grazing" ADAPTS to the ecological environment of grassland,rationally uses the resources of grass and livestock,and creates a set of local knowledge system of harmonious coexistence between human and nature.With a long history and rich cultural and biological diversity,the Alukorqin grassland nomadic system is a typical model of sustainable pastoralism in the world.The Arukorchin Grassland Nomadic System has received national attention since 2014.On May 20,2022,the Arukorchin Grassland Nomadic System was officially recognized as a global important agricultural heritage by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.From February 22.6 to September,and October to December,February 2022.the author participated in the herdsmen’s transfer practice in Bayan Wendur Sumu and observed the production and life of herdsmen’s summer camp.This paper takes the local knowledge in the nomadic transition practice of Bayan Wendur Sumu as the research object.Through participating observation and in-depth interview,this paper presents the organized transition practice process of herdsmen in the Aru Korqin Grassland.From the perspective of "culture holder",the author analyzed and sorted out the local knowledge of herdsmen in aspects of ecological environment awareness,grassland cognition and classification,livestock cognition and classification,mobile social organization norms and so on,and then discussed the impact and contemporary value of local knowledge under the background of modernization.The thesis consists of three parts: introduction,text and conclusion.The main contents of each part are as follows:The introduction part mainly introduces the reason of the topic,related research status and literature review to clarify the significance and research value of the topic.The first chapter mainly introduces the situation of Bayan Wendur,describing the natural ecological environment,historical evolution and nomadic culture characteristics,as well as the background and selection process of being selected as an important agricultural cultural heritage in the world.Through these problems,the practical basis and local knowledge of herdsmen’s nomadic transition are shown.The second chapter focuses on the nomadic transition practice of Bayan Wendur,and discusses the ecological protection value of the nomadic transition practice of Bayan Wendur in modern ecological governance by analyzing the organized nomadic transition practice,the prescribed transition route,the division of pasture and the regular transition life.The third chapter discusses the local knowledge in the movement,analyzes the herdsmen’s awareness of ecological protection in nature worship and taboo,the use of natural resources and cognition of livestock reflects the harmonious dependence of human and nature,and the norms of social organization in the movement,which presents the local knowledge of herdsmen’s nomadic transition practice.The last part is the discussion and summary,which mainly discusses and summarizes the adaptation of local knowledge to culture and environment in transition practice from the aspects of the ecological value of local knowledge,the difficulties faced in the process of modernization and the integration and application of modern technology and local knowledge.