The folk legend,which narrated with natural landscapes as well as social historical and cultural images within the Tangya Tusi Site of Xian Feng,Enshi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture,is important spiritual cultural phenomenon of Tangya Tusi cultural heritage.They've been mainly evolving in active state and added deeply historical and mysterious sense to the Tusi cultural heritage in Wuling Area.The folk legend of Tangya Tusi is presented with historical imprints and unique cultural atmosphere,with clearly developmental process during hundreds of years.The formation of legend nucleus and legend circle which has been marked as both in The Tusi system and regional Tangya,is due to historicity and regionalism of Tangya Tusi legend,so the effect of legend circle layer could be interpreted clearly.The legend of Tangya Tusi has strongly social and cultural integration function as a result of carrying profoundly historical,local and national cultural connotation.However,the field surveys have revealed that,the Tangya Tusi folk legend faced with the crisis of gradual extinction,because of the change of legend recipients psychological cognition,the mutability of oral literature and the impact of modern life.The society should do a better job of sorting,protecting and developing the Tangya Tusi legend to enhance the authentic protection and creative inheritance development of legend. |