Research On "The New Year's Account Book Of The Spring Festival New Year" In Wande Chieftain's Office

The Documentary of Yi Ethnic has a long historical standing,and records information of the ancient Yi People's politics,economy,culture,custom and other aspects.Its literature value has been paid attention to by the academic circle since the end of the 20s of last century,and many scholars have studied it successively.Yang Chengzhi,an early famous nationologist,collected a lot of Yi literature and classified them during the investigation of the national situation in Yunnan.In 40s,Ma Xueliang went deep into the Yi nationality area in Yunnan Province,investigated the social history of Yi nationality,collected and compiled Yi nationality classics,and published many researches on Yi literature,which laid a solid theoretical foundation for the study of Yi nationality.Because most of the Yi nationality's Classics are kept from generation to generation by bemo,and most of them are religious sacrifices.So there are lots of researches in this field,but not enough attention is paid to other else literatures.In the ancient books of the Yi nationality,there are a large number of archives,contract,account books and other important documents,and they have important research value.The Account Book of the Special Purchases for the Spring Festival of Wande Chieftain State Office records the conditions that in the Wuding of Yunnan Province,during the Spring Festi-val twenty Yi villages offer tributes to Chieftain Mansion.The book is partially damaged,with 765 words left,and the time of writing is unknown.It is now collected in the library of Tsinghua University.The content records that the village's special purchases for the Spring Festival are rice,beans,linen,wine,chicken and so on.It provides a reliable materials for us to understand the food and crop conditions of the Yi people in the past.At the same time,to a certain extent,it helps us to understand the chieftain institution of Yi people and the relationship between chieftains and tenants.This paper consists of four parts:The first part is the introduction,which mainly includes the selected topic origin and significance,research review,research methods and explanatory notes,annotation style.The second part is that the full text translated by four lines,and annotated with important terms.If necessary,we should do an in-depth interpretation from the perspective of culture,so as to reveal its implied cultural connotation.This part is divided into two chapters,and the original book' s photos are attached to the text to give the readers a visual sense.Finally,the overall translation of the full text is attached to the end of the chapter.The third part,on the basis of the translation of the account book,and make research and analysis.This part is divided into two sections.The first section introduces the origin,characteristics and value of the text.The second section examines the contents of the book and analyzes the reasons for the differences in the categories and quantity of annual goods that tribes pay to the chieftains,based on the analysis of the degree of exploitation of the tenants by the chieftains based on the quantity of the new year,and to explore the historical reasons that caused the tributary farming items in each village to be fixed within the four ranges.The fourth part is the conclusion,which mainly points out the innovation and deficiency of this paper.In summary,this article,focuses on four lines of translation,studies the crops in the book,and discusses country of origin and the distribution and planting scale of Yunnan Province in the historical period,in order to provide references for the research of Yi books.