A Study Of Yi 's Ancient Social Control Thought

Control ideas of the Yi society is the crystallization of ideas about how to maintain social benign operation and harmonious development, which is gradually formed in the long historical development process.Because of the unique social organization form, the thoughts and culture of the Yi people’s, and religious beliefs, its thoughts of social control is mainly integrated in Bimo culture, clan organization, social norms and relevant political thoughts. Bimo religion taking ghost-god beliefs as core, standardizes behavior of Bimo and the Yi people through a variety of religious rites and religious activities, and provides them with religious comfort and guides all aspects of life. The resulting Bimo culture is the basis of Yi’s ideology and culture, but also the source of control ideas of the Yi society. not only plays the role of moral enlightenment of the Yi people, but also Bimo religion also has a certain positive role for stability and development of the Yi’s society. Bimo culture influences the formation of clan organization, norms and political ideas,and it also plays a decisive role in the stability and development of the Yi society. Clan organization is not only the patriarchy group,but also the essential political unit in the Yi society. It is the subject of social control, and plays an important role in the control of the Yi society, every Yi member within the home team owns a certain social status, and played the corresponding social role. On one hand, home teams protect various interests of the members.On the other hand, home teams have different limits on the behavior of the internal members to maintain the stability of the Yi society. The Yi people regard ethic as the human essence, and strengthen the idea through karma. The ideas of theocracy played an important role in the management in the history of the Yi society. The ethic instructs the Yi people what to do,how to be, and plays a very important role in the continuation of family, home and unity. The governor in the ancient society combined religion with politics, controlled the social by means of theocracy. On the basis of in-depth analysis and deconstruction of the Yi’s ancient social control, we can create the Yi nationality characteristic and the influences of social control thoughts, which is helpful to enrich the content of the traditional social control thoughts in our country, to promote the construction of a harmonious society, Yi region canalso provides experience and theory model for other ethnic areas.