A Study On The Cultural Changes Of The Yi Village In

Livelihood is which people maintain a relatively stable strategy or way of life, it is closely related with people between the natural environment and social environment.Yi Village named Zixi,Chuxiong,Yunnan, the local people in order to maintain traditional agriculture and livestock farming livelihoods in a long period of time, and also hold the traditional agricultural livelihood culture. This article is based on field investigation,combining with the correlation theories of ethnology,anthropology and sociology,to research the change of local people’s livelihood culture.With the development of times, especially under the continuous change of natural and social environment,people’s livelihood options become more diversified, livelihood culture also will be pluralistic.At the same time, a variety of ways of living coexist is changing rural way of life, social structure, interpersonal relationship,the culture of the Yi nationality areas, social consciousness, and many other aspects are generating the corresponding adjustment and adaptation. This change has helped the local livelihood culture gradually change and lets new way of living and its culture reflect the important role more and more, it has a strong background and practical significance.This article consists of preface,main body and epilogue.In the Chapter 1 preface,there are introductions of the cause of subject’s selection,research overview,object and method of research,difficulty and innovation of research;In the Chapter 2,combining with pertinent literature and survey data,introducing this village’s general situations from geographic location and environment,historic evolution,population and nationality,economic conditions,manners and customs;In the Chapter 3,taking traditional livelihood culture of Yi village named Zixi as main content.Describing various means of livelihood and their culture,to demonstrate the feature of primary livelihood culture;In the Chapter 4,taking modern change of this village’s livelihood culture as main content.Describing the change of primary livelihood and its culture,also describing the rising livelihood and its culture.To show the rough changing conditions of locallivelihood culture.;In the Chapter 5,exploring the challenges and conflicts in the process of livelihood culture’s change.It is also the analysis causes of this article;In the Chapter 6,it connects preamble.In the presupposition of livelihood culture’change,discussing the adjustment and adaptation of local people’s all round of production and living.In the Chapter 7 epilogue:Livelihood culture is a fundamental portion of social culture,it is not invariable.We should treat it by developing foresight.Comprehending the reasons and influences of livelihood culture,and do not reject the change of livelihood culture.To the contrary,doing some appropriate adjustment,in order to adapt this type of change better.