Local Narration And Cultural Memory

The Buyi,which is most distributed in the southwest border area of China,is an ancient rice-growing ethnic group.Its long history gives birth to dazzling folk literature.As one of the important genres of folk literature,legend has always been favored by researchers.The folklore of Buyi ethnic group in Ceheng county of Guizhou province is abundant in quantity,variety and content.It is an important object to study the society,history and culture of Buyi ethnic group.This paper takes the local narrative and cultural memory as the research problem,and the folklore of Buyi in Ceheng county as the research object,trying to explain the interactive relationship between the local narrative and cultural memory.This paper is mainly divided into four chapters,the main content is as follows:The first chapter gives a detailed description of the background and types of Buyi legends.Firstly,the historical origin,natural environment and social features of the Buyi legends are described in detail.Secondly,the legend of the Buyi in Ceheng County is defined and the legend types of the Buyi are explained,which can be divided into descriptive legend and explanatory legend.The second chapter explains the local narratives and divides them into repeated local narratives and current local narratives according to the characteristics of Buyi ethnic folktales in Ceheng County.Repeated local narrative is mainly embodied in the tabu legend of Buyi,the legend of ethnic origin and the legend of place names,and the present local narrative is mainly embodied in the legend of historical figures,the legend of customs and customs,and the present local narrative is specifically manifested in the fragmentation of the narrative,the material state of the narrative,three-dimensional narrative.Finally,it explains that local narrative,as a kind of local knowledge,has a great influence on the formation of collective memory.The third chapter mainly sorts out and generalizes the cultural memory carried by the local narrative,classifies it into historical memory,homeland memory and custom memory,and explains its cultural significance.At the same time,it points out that cultural memory is the representation of the consciousness dimension of the local narrative,which is divided into waking up the declining narrative and strengthening the local narrative.The fourth chapter is the last chapter of this paper,which deeply summarizes the relationship between local narrative and cultural memory based on Buyi legends.Local narrative carries cultural memory,and cultural memory in turn further strengthens local narrative,and the two complement each other.Based on the appearance and narrative characteristics of Buyi folklore,this paper divides it into repeated local narrative and current local narrative,which together constitute the local narrative of Buyi folklore.Local narratives determine cultural memory,which in turn drives local narratives.The interaction between the two,together to promote the cycle of folklore.