Investigate And Research The Rite Activity Of Honoring Ancestors Of The Weishan Yi In Yunnan

The rite of honoring ancestors of the Weishan Yi in Yunnan is deeply rooted in the fertile soil of the Yi people lives and breeds sacred Mount Weibao. The rite of honoring ancestors is a status symbol of Yi people, it is holds in the fourteen to fifteen day of the January and the eight day of February and other important festivals days every year, it has listed hundreds years . It is a vivid expression of respecting the ancestors of the Yi people's, thanking the ancestors, revering heroes of history. It reflects Yi traditional religious worship of honoring ancestors, and reflects honoring ancestors is the core polytheism worship and believing in animism the Analects Primitive Religion are its major characteristics. At the same time, its also objectively incarnates the Yi traditional religious society through a lot of historical transitions and developments, and infiltrates different age and cultural compositions of the true situation. In the context of protecting intangible cultural heritage, researching of the rite of honoring ancestors of the Yi in Weishan has made some progretation, but most of the studies alway seeing it a dependency of the grand research system, tending to respect it as a specific cases to be introduced in order to express the main list of a study sestym. The theoretical study of the rite of honoring ancestors of the Yi in Weishan is lacking. Through field research,and use ethnic sociology methods to explore the historical evolution of the rite of honoring ancestors of the Yi in Weishan, to inspect the ritual of honoring ancestors of the Yi and to make ritual comments on the study of the exegetic symbols explanation, the operational symbols explanation, the psychological and positional symbolic interpretations of expression. Deeply studying the rite of honoring ancestors of the Yi in Weishan embodying cultural meaning, social function and value. Revealing the protection practical difficulties faced by the rite of honoring ancestors of the Yi in Weishan, and then putting forward to countermeasures and suggestions for continueing Yi rites cultural heritage, in order to explore a suitable path and method suit the rite of honoring ancestors of the Yi in Weishan protection .Letting the rite of honoring ancestors of the Yi as intangible cultural heritage and adapting to the development of contemporary society, in harmonying with modern civilization. Fully playing its role of ethnic cohesion and nurture Yi ethnic groups to promote national unity and identity, in order to well serve the Yi region's economic, political, social, cultural building, and promote the Yi ethnic area to the overall harmonious and sustainable development.