Ethnic Identity And Construction Of Relationship Between Different Ethnic Groups

As we all know,Festival of Hobbyhorse Riding is a regional festival which only been spread in river basin of Guyang in Xiangxi.Circulating in the upper reaches of Guzhang County river basin in Xiangxi,is because the environment of historical and geography about the festival.Guzhang is located in the north of central part in western Hunan.In this area,Tujia,Miao,Han and other ethnic groups live together.Tujia and Miao divided north and south,people of Miao live in the south,and people of Tujia live in the north.The location of the festival distribution is between the north and south.In the festival,dominant is the Tujia village,which is surrounded by Miao village.Different ethnic groups living in the common space,interaction will always happen between ethnic groups,and the ensuing is further communication.Part of Festival of Hobbyhorse Riding which simulated the scene of the war,obviously it is memory of bad interaction between ethnic groups.Historical memories are incorporated in people' s daily life as a festival,and then translate into daily knowledge.Festival contains a wealth of content,Festival of Hobbyhorse Riding as a collectively name,which include as Sacrifice,Hobbyhorse Riding,celebration,Burn the master and so on.Different parts of festival have different properties.Some parts have the nature of sacrifice,and some parts have the nature of entertainment,other parts have more than one kind of nature.As the part of celebration,is a kind of entertainment,and also is a kind of interaction,which is trying to confuse the relationship between the two ethnic groups.And give prominence to the relationship of regional community.Through festivals,people not only sacrifice to their god,and also deepen communications between neighboring villages.In different historical periods,Festival of Hobbyhorse Riding belongs to different ethnic groups.According to described by scholars Shi Qigui,Festival of Hobbyhorse Riding named as Hobbyhorse Riding of Miao.But which nation is the festival belongs to,or-maybe it is not belong to any nation.That also need to in-depth study.In the part of Sacrifice,Tujia clerics dominate.In addition to that,people are not stressed difference between nations in the other parts of the festival.Otherwise,in a lot of links,Festival of Hobbyhorse Riding showing a celebrate atmosphere.In the regional community awareness of the deepening of the moment,the festival also changed accordingly.That is,people pay more attention to the impact of the festival on the entire region,and what can the festival bring to the regional community.Today's Festival of Hobbyhorse Riding is no longer focused on the worship of ancestors,the distinction between ethnicity and the memory of war.On the contrary,today's Festival of Hobbyhorse Riding is to show more harmonious inter-ethnic interaction of people to get along in the shared space,and for the pursuit of spiritual life after the material well-being.This shows that the festival is always conform to history of the structure of social relations has been constantly adjusted in local life.Particularly prominent is transcendence and Outstanding or blur and clear of Inter-ethnic Boundary in the Festival Ceremony are all changed around the needs of the real interests.This also reflects people pursuit value of harmony in diversity is always a deep spiritual power.From the festivals show and people' s role,you can see such a spiritual power,which is also the crystallization of folk wisdom made the local social order of daily life can be constructed.But,influenced by the discourse of intangible Cultural Heritage and folk tourism,the clergy who had faded out of the festival had returned to the stage,and play an important role in the festival.And the so-called national character of the festival is overemphasizing by mainstream media once again in order to cater the needs of tourists.