The Culture Pattern of Naxi People 纳西族人的文化模式
Liyong He和立勇, 云南民族大学Yunnan Nationalities University
Doing research on the culture pattern of an ethnic group can help us understand “human” and “culture” from the basic view point of “ethnic culture”.
Naxi people have a culture pattern with specific life ideal, and it has been shown in their own behaviors and ideas. Naxi people take “xigao” as standard way of being a Naxi, “xidu” as rule of interaction, and “quchao” as dominant ethnic life style. All these originate from “yangren”, their goal of life, and their pursuit of ideal life status “zao”. Meanwhile, by taking the life style with ethnic life characteristics, such as offering sacrifice, and holding wedding and funeral, Naxi people keep enforcing kinship relations with each other. In this way, people can explore other’s personality in the interactions during long time, accept those “xigao”, who have passed long test, as “our party”, and adopt them into our main social net. While even in the interactions among “our party”, reciprocity and fair are still the basic reasonable interactive rules, as well as mutual respect and harmonious circumstance and leisurely entertainment style. This kind of culture pattern can best meet Naxi’s pursuit of life ideal “zao”.
The connotation of “culturelizing” lies in how to find out people through culture, and to rediscover the meaning and value of life existence. To explore the culture pattern of Naxi people is actually to rediscover the intrinsic core value of Naxi’s spirit. It will help to trace Naxi’s traditional culture change in social and culture change, and it is of practical importance to the study of Naxi.
