A Comparative Study On The Mask Culture Of Tied Monkey In Shizong Yi Ethnic Group In Yunnan Provinc

The ceremony of the tied monkey is an annual festival held by the Yi ethnic group in Shizong County of Qujing City,with the ancestor worship and blessing as the core,which reflects the folk culture of the area.As the artistic expression in the ceremony,the mask of the tied monkey is used as a research unit to explore the mask art and analyze the present situation of the National Art development represented by the mask and the reasons for the different development trends of homologous art.This paper mainly studies the masks used in 2018 for the activities of the tied monkey in Daduza village and the masks used in the activities of the tied monkey in Banqiaohe village in Shizong County in 2019.It is divided into four parts.The first part is the activities of the tied monkeys in the village context.Firstly,we introduce the village space of the mask,and present the historical and cultural habitat on which the mask depends for survival and development.Afterwards,the sources and legends of the activities of the tied monkeys were combed out.According to the chronological order,the procedure of the ceremony of the tied monkeys in Daduza village in 2018 and the procedure of the ceremony of the tied monkeys in Banqiaohe village in 2019 were described and the existing forms of activities were summarized.The second part is the study of the body of the tied monkey mask.Firstly,this paper discusses the image of the mask,and analyzes the modeling types,modeling characteristics,color matching and decorative techniques of the two village masks.Secondly,from the aspect of mask making,the production staff and the production process are described separately.Finally,the present situation of the development of the mask art used in the same ritual is presented intuitively.The third part is the deep exploration of the tied monkey mask culture.This paper discusses the mask culture of the two villages from three aspects: mask symbol,mask connotation and mask function,and expounds the different expressions of the mask art as symbolic symbol of the village.That is to say,Daduza village has formed a cultural expression based on the tradition of reproduction of the source Legends,and Banqiaohe Village has formed a cultural expression of diversity based on the culture of praying.The fourth part mainly compares the culture of the tied monkey mask of the two villages.Firstly,the similarity of the two village mask cultures is analyzed,that is,the homologous culture with blessing as the core and hideous beauty as the aesthetic expression.Secondly,the differences of mask culture are analyzed,that is,the external intuitive differences formed under the influence of different living communities,inheritance methods and inheritance patterns.Finally,the reasons for the diversity of mask culture are explained,that is,under the influence of source legends and cultural factors,the spiritual and cultural changes of villagers under the trend of cultural exchanges have formed a selective reconstruction of culture represented by villagers.This process shows a detailed picture of the reproduction of folk knowledge in the village.