The Research Of Calendrical Rites Of Yinuo Nationality Of Liangshan

Bimo religion of Yi nationality, as a set of religious system, fully and sacredly explains a set of social regulation and value system on yinuo nationality of liangshan. Various rituals of Bimo religion of Yi nationality, as the routins of people of YI nationality, make up an inevitable part of People of Yi nationality, become their connection and strengthen their shared value and cohesive force.The three famous calendrical rites, named xi obur, jji ju and yyr cyt, have been the very vivid and significant rites in Yinuo, Liangshan. The three famous calendrical rites are rites of affliction, moreover, jijue have been becoming the festival and seasonal custom. The three famous calendrical rites are characterized as seasonal and crises configurational. The three famous calendrical rites, as seasonal rites, should be hold every year by people in Yinuo. Seen as the crises ritual, xiaobu, jijue and yici has different meaning based on the principles of different features about scale and level of criese; Seen as time ritual, xiaobu, jijue and yici express the religious experiences on time of people in Yinuo. Seen as the incantation rite, three famous calendrical rites reflect unique incantation and hard nature of Mang people; the date of rites is the reflection of astronomic knowledge of Mang people and the layout of rites is the reflection of spatial concept of Mang people. We can also find the unique religious concept of Mang people to god, ghost, soul and so on, know life value and time of Mang people from seasonal rites; The sacrifice for livestock should be different in terms of different meaning due to the amount, colour and shape of livestock means different to Mang people which deserves further exploit.The paper focuses on the deep meaning of religious thoughts of Yi nationality and traditionally cultural information reflected by the three seasonal rites. The author uses seasonal ritual process as pivot, based on the exact definition of the three famous rites, applies anthropological ritual process and symbolic theory to key factors, namely the setup and request time and space contexts, sacrifice and ritual process, in order to disclose the deep meaning of religious thoughts behind the religious acts of Yi nationality and unique incantation culture of seasonal rites of Yi seasonal rites. However, seasonal rites in Yinuo community has a traditional side and a side of change and evolution. Therefore, in the latter of the paper, author apply the methods of anthropology and sociology to investigate about the current situation of seasonal rites of Yi Nationality in Yinuo, with interview in depth and participation in rites. The paper longitudinaly and laterally compares the changes about the process and content of seasonal rites, with a conclusion that the changes is due to the eclipse of Bimo religion and loyalty of believers in Yinuo. Through the investigation, it is found that the trends of Bimo religion and rites process has become generalization and personalization in Yinuo community based on the shock of modernization, secularization and culture combination, there’s another change of Bimo religion and rites process as well, which leads vanish and resurgence of the rites. Thus, it’s theoretically and practically significant to investigate on the three seasonal rites in Yinuo, which disclose the essence of traditional culture of Yi nationality and explore the conflict and adjustment between the tradition and modernization of religious faith in traditional culture reservation area.