A Study On The Jumping Encouragement In The "Mi Miha" Ritual Activities Of The Yi People In The Tuyu Village, Niukong Town, Luchun County

This paper takes Tiaogu dance,in mi ga ha sacrificial activity of Yi people in Lvcun county,as research object.Tiaogu dance is well-known at home and abroad and attracted extensive attention.But meanwhile,there is hardly no systematic research on it in recent years.Tiaogu dance is an important part in the mi ga ha sacrificial activity,which is the grandest religious sacrificial activity,in Lvcun county of Yi people.As time passing by,the Tiaogu dance has bec0 me a folk traditional dancing style including productbility,celebrating and religiousness,disaffiliated itself from the bond of tradition religion.This paper includes four main parts according to the massive references,former research achievement and field investigations.The origin and development situation of the Tiaogu dance are discussed in the first part.In the second part,the background,the perform place,art form and functional significance of the Tiaogu dance are comprehensively investigated and studied by the folklore and anthropology.In the third part,the cultural connotation of the Tiaogu dance is deeply explored and interpreted from the view of the symbolic metaphor of the ceremony,Yi's view of religion and ecology.In the final part,the function change and its reason of the Tiaogu dance in modern society,are discussed.Moreover,some advice,thoughts and modern development of the Tiaogu dance are put forward.