The Textual Research For The Inheritance And Spread Of Yi Myth In Threezong Mountain Of Shangdang District

Yi myth is one of the four famous myths in ancient China, it shows it’s important position and the special value in the myth history of our country, so the myth has received much attention from many scholars and folk culture lovers, it has got lots of research results at the same time. These research achievements result from the ancient text, that is, by analyzing the materials for the conclusions. Although it has made lots of achievements, but on the whole, it neglects the real function in the common people’s productivity and life, the paper attempts to break the predicament of closed research,adopts the special field work method of folklore, tries to put the Yi myth in the broader social life, and I (the writer)went to the place where the Yi myth took place for a actual visiting survey personally, and tried to draw the outline of the real development condition of Yi myth in folk, in order to make the Yi mythology research become more comprehensive and stereoscopic.The full text is divided into five parts, the first part is the introduction, recommend briefly from three aspects, that is, the purpose and significance of the topics, studies summarize and data sources and methods. The second part is the first chapter, the recordation of Yi myth in historical document, adopts the way of studying the ancient text, combs the condition of the development of Yi myth from three stages, that is, the historical facts of origin, the myth analysis and the posterity development. The third part is the second chapter, the condition of the inheritance and spread of Yi myth in ThreeZong Mountain of ShangDang district. By referring to the local information and the filed investigation personally, mainly dissertates from three aspects: rainmakers customs,ThreeZong Temple buildings and Yi God faith, trying to restore the living condition of the Yi myth, and further reveals Yi myth in local inheritance rheological condition. The fourth part is the third chapter, the new characteristics of Yi myth inheritance in contemporary. Presents in the aspects of the subjective initiative of the main body of the inheritance increased and the transformation of the way of inheritance. The fifth part is the conclusion, the main point of above three are summarized, and restates my point of view.The paper adopts the two different subject methods of literature reading method and the field work method, in order to restore a more complete pattern of Yi myth by analyzing the condition of its come into being, development and evolvement longitudinally and the folk heritage status. Based on this and concluded that Yi mythology as a representative of the folk literature in contemporary inheritance of new features, hope to promote multidisciplinary cross over and fusion,also hope to provide some reference and guidance for the local development of cultural cause.