The Study On Shigong Libretto Of Maonan Minority

The ShiGong religion of Maonan minority is not only a part of folk religion in southwest areas, but one of the most representative characteristic culture of Maonan. Throughout the study on Maonan, the research about "redeem a wish" in the ShiGong activities is relatively abundant and always goes on from the angle of dance or ceremony. However, since the collection is difficult and incomplete, there is little research on its libretto. Besides, Maonan minority has its own language, but no characters. There are big parts of Chinese words and Zhuang words and another parts of Maonan's dialect words, which also aggravates the difficulty of study.In order to more deeply understand the religion belief, ideology, psychological need, historical customs and other aspects of Maonan minority, the thesis starts from the angle of Maonan libretto and employs text analysis and comparison to conduct a relatively systematical and complete study on the libretto and reflect thought contents, characteristic features, cultural meaning of Maonan ShiGong libretto along with the relation between the former and Han nationality and Zhuang minority's libretto. Moreover, the thesis also gets certain significance in the study on the protection of Maonan religion and Maonan's intangible culture heritage.The thesis mainly separates in following parts:The preface briefly introduces studying methods of ShiGong libretto.Chapter one mainly illustrates the source and inheritable circumstances of Maonan ShiGong libretto and starts from the religion belief of Maonan people and religion activities of ShiGong to study the libretto's resource, kinds and functions.Chapter two mainly discusses thought contents of Maonan ShiGong libretto.Chapter three centrally analyzes characteristic features of Maonan ShiGong libretto from aspects of language, style, words, narration and priming effects.Chapter four discusses cultural meaning of Maonan ShiGong libretto, which roots in national grounds, absorbs the cultural essence of Confucianism Buddhism Taoism and inherits simple spirits concepts of primitive Yue witch.Chapter five mainly does a comparative study and a relative analysis about the relation between Maonan ShiGong libretto and Han nantionality and Zhuang minority libretto, Maonan ShiGong libretto and Maonan folk songs, Maonan ShiGong libretto and Maonan folktales, Maonan ShiGong libretto and Han and Zhuang folktales.The last chapter mainly illustrates the protection and utilization of Maonan ShiGong libretto to reflect the actual meaning and value of the study.The conclusion concludes ShiGong libretto's studying situation and development trend.