| The Lisu are an ethnic minority mainly found in the southwestern part of China and have a slow economic development.However,t he Lisu people are among the best preserved cultural practices of any minority group.The Lisu’s unique rituals of "going to the knife",marriage,and funeral ceremonies are all closely related to their original religious concepts.Using a phenomenological approach,the main body of the paper examines the three rituals with a transition to the study of Lisu ethnicity and a focus on the ethnic identity of the Lisu ethnic group.The paper adopts Iliad’s phenomenological approach,rejecting the reductionist view and advocating a return to the ethno-religious phenomenon itself.Using the Lisu rituals of "going to the sword",wedding rituals,and funeral ri tuals,we describe the rituals and briefly analyze them in terms of the distinction between the sacred and secular worlds,and extract elements from the rituals to analyze Lisu ethnicity and its religious and ethnic identity.Starting from the opposition b etween the sacred and secular worlds,Lisu ethnicity and religious and ethnic identity are explored on the basis of the concept of the soul and the worship of ancestral gods.This paper combines the concepts of ethnicity and religion,focusing on the conce pts of "soul" and "ancestral deity worship" to examine Lisu ethnic identity.From a ritual perspective,we discover the special status of the "ancestor gods" in the hearts of the Lisu people.It can be argued that the Lisu "ancestor gods" are central to Li su ethnicity,as well as to Lisu religious and ethnic identity.This structure is based on the ritual basis of the Lisu people’s rituals,which distinguish between the sacred world and the secular world,with the idea of the soul as the underlying structure,and the belief in the ancestral gods becoming the center of the Lisu faith,radiating into the symbols of the sacred elements of the rituals.This structure constitutes Lisu ethnicity and serves as a major component of Lisu religious identity,as well as an important aspect of Lisu ethnic identity.This paper uses interview,fieldwork,and documentation meth ods to summarize and summarize relevant materials based on reading literature and fieldwork.Using traditional Lisu rituals as an entry point,the p aper reveals the intrinsic ethnic structure of the Lisu ethnic group through a phenomenological study of spe cific ritual processes;draws on traditional rituals and primitive beliefs to demonstrate their ethnic ideology and religious identity;and presents a system of Lisu ethnic character and ethnic identity through ritual analysis.The Lisu ethnic group has fo rmed a religious faith with "ancestral god worship" as the core and a corresponding religious identity core,providing a specific faith environment for community members,and through the repeated practice of traditional rituals and the sacred transformatio n of space,the religious identity is internalized into the psychological consensus of the community and extended to community life and behavior pat terns,further consolidating The religious identity is internalized into the psychological consensus of the community and extended to the life and behavior patterns of the community,further consolidating the community identity. |
