JOURNAL OF QUJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY ›› 2019, Vol. 38 ›› Issue (1): 74-78.

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Interpretation of the “Torch Festival”evoking ritual of the Yi Sani people

Li Xiaoxuan   

  1. school of nationalities and Culture Yunnan University for nationalities,Kunming Yunnan 650223,China
  • Received:2018-07-22 Online:2019-01-26

Abstract: The Yi people of Shilin still have the custom of evoking souls, and there are different kinds of the Chronicles of Soul scattered in the hands of Bimo. Sani's evocative words have beautiful language, orderly structure and strict sentence structure, and usually use five characters as one sentence, and the ritual contents are complicated and the form is relatively complete. In the daily evoking, festival evoking, sacrifice evoking and other evoking rituals, evocative words and rituals all play an important role. This paper is to arrange the text of the material of field investigation called “the Chronicle of the Soul”-<Yakanizri Shaoer> (Chinese meaning “June 24”), and on the basis of the interpretation, combining with the Bimo evoking ceremony in the field investigation, To place a ritual in a particular text. Turn space, analyze the unique meaning behind its living state inheritance, analyze the concept of life and death and soul of the Saanis.

Key words: Sani, June 24, Soul

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