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Caogai Dance Ritual, a ceremony held to repel evil spirits and illness in Baima Tibetan village at the beginning of each year. As the most important religious activity of Baima Tibetan community, Caogai Dance Ritual has changed tortuously in the last 60 years; it flourishes, disappears and then revives. Baima Tibetans worship nature spirits and have the characteristics of Bon religion. In the process of China's modernization, Baima Tibetans adapt passively to the social develop at first and then gradually participate actively in pursuit of the modernity This process is also significantly reflected in the Caogai Dance Ritual.Base on the fieldwork of Pingwu Baima Tibetan's Caogai Dance Ritual, this article analyzes the underlying structure and function of the ritual. Combining the recent Caogai Dance Ritual with the similar ones that spreads in the Baima Tibetans who live in the Wen county and Jiu Zhaigou county that conterminous with Pingwu county, article aims to analyze the deep reason behind the Caogai Dance-ritual and Baima Tibetan society. By analyzing the changes of Baima traditional ritual, the article carries out research into the mentality of Baima people in the process of modernization and makes a record in an ethnographic style.The structure of the thesis includes three parts:introduction, body and conclusion. The first chapter mainly introduces the special position of Baima Tibetan in the Zangyi Corridor, their culture and folklore impacted by the Tibetan, Han and Qiang ethnic groups, concerns the dispute that about the Baima people's group belonging. According to the field research, chapter two gives a detailed description of today's living Caogai Dance Ritual and traces the profile of the traditional ceremony by using literature and the local oral tradition. Chapter three issues a thick description of various symbols and functions of the Caogai Dance Ritual and analyzes Caogai Dance Ritual's specific senses in the Baima society and their cultural inheritance. Combined with competition among.different forces in the process of Baima community's modernization, Chapter four turns to the attitudes and cultural consciousness of Baima Tibetan, describes and rethinks the development of modernity in ethnic groups.Starting from the transformation of Caogai Dance Ritual, the conclusion pays attention to the process of changes of Baima Tibetan's understanding about their culture that the Baima Tibetan yearn for the mainstream culture unconsciously in early stage and then are aware of their own culture, and the promotion of modernity in the gradual-process. As the ethnic communities and the tradition bearers are increasingly involved in the process of modernization and globalization more and more deeply, the Baima people who try to play their initiative to become the dominator, the beneficiaries and even promoters of their traditional cultures. Although the freedom of Baima people to develop their culture was still somewhat limited, and their self-consciousness are still in the primary state, however, the researchers and audiences who outside of the Baima community should hold a prudence attitude to understand and promotion the Baima culture, meanwhile, leave enough space for the culture holders to achieve their own development.