Zhangna 中央音乐学院

The traditional music of Na’xi ethnic group, also known as ‘baishaxiyue’, is one of the most important parts of the inherited traditional Na’xi music which includes ‘Dongba music’, ‘Boshixili’ and ‘Lijiang traditional music’. For a long period of time, the researchers of relevant disciplines have been concentrating on the indications of its name; its history tracks, its musical from and its historical and cultural values. As for the indications of the name, there are mainly two opinions including ‘baishaxiyue’ and ‘baisha music’. As for its history tracks, ‘baishaxiyue’ is the folk music derived from Na’xi ethnic group and it is the heritage sound of the Yuan people. It is also a great music that mixed with various sources of music. As for the musical form, ‘bashaxiyue’ is a kind of classical music set that contains dancing music, songs and instrument music. Its traditional performing processes start from ‘du’, followed by ‘zongshi’ ‘sansiji’ ‘aliligoujibo’ ‘meimiwo’ ‘duocuo’ ‘kacuo’ and ended by ‘mubu’. The main features of the musical form are the consistency between every second paragraph and the comparison between the neighboring paragraphs. If it is the chorus of eight musicians, the main instrument is bamboo and accompanied by singing and dancing. There is no company of the beating instrument and no rigid numbers of the band. This essay will mainly deal with the name indication, its musical forms and the recent research and conclusion.

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Yang Linjun

Lijiang, Yunnan Province Lijiang education College

Accepts the western learning is a famous doctrine which on the century 80’s later excitedly will emerge.The Naxi nationality has the profound history, delivers the soul route from the east Pakistan Confucian classics record to look, its migration route and the time are long.In the past studied the Naxi nationality history to use the sole history research technique, the literature is basically the center, the rigorous proof, has done the thorough research to the Naxi nationality history.Along with the literature material thorough research, piles very difficultly in the literature discovers the novel viewpoint.Actually, the entire history is facing the like this difficult position.Multi-disciplinary, the multi-domain cooperation research has become the scientific research the direction, the Naxi nationality history research also needs to profit from and to quote other disciplines the research technique.With the anthropology field investigation research technique, the union history original research way and the achievement, are becoming the history research the new direction.The Naxi nationality is a migration nationality, in the long migration on the way, the accumulation and the model and other nationality’s merit, generation of receives hands down from generation to generation, has become the present “the big culture”.Therefore, the Naxi nationality history research, should pay great attention to the field investigation the method, goes out the gateway, invests the field, feels historical the scene feeling.This article is divided three parts:

First, Naxi nationality history research achievement and difficult position.

Second,Historical anthropology fundamental research method and in history domain influence.

Third, Under historical anthropology field of vision Naxi nationality history research technique and breakthrough direction.

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Hu Wenming   Lijiang Party School

Pumi and Naxi are two ethnic groups that have a long history and rich culture, distributing at the crossing boarders of Yunnan, Sichuan and Tibet. In the ancient Chinese history books, Pumi ancestors were called Xifan(西蕃or西番), and Naxi ancestors Muosuo(摩梭) or Mexie(么些). After new China was founded, the names Xifan and Mexie weren’t used any longer through the national recognition. According to the principle ‘name follows master’, unity legal national names were used since then, namely, Pumi and Naxi. Pumi and Naxi lived next to each other, even mixed together in the long history. They have close connection in politics and economy, they have been sharing many commons in religion colture. Therefore, a state of culture and society mixture Pumi and Naxi was formed. Obviously, the study of the historical relationship of the two ethnic groups is an important theme topic for both Pumi and Naxi. Unfortunately, from home and abroad, the study on this topic is not wide enough, nor deep, systematic, and the study development is rather slow. Thus, it is very necessary to do further exploration and study. This paper tries to analyse and study this relationship by the of applying multi-subject and different approaches, which leads to the writer’s systematic recognition and view on the topic, what’s more, it figures out a general picture of the historical relationship between Pumi and Naxi. The paper will discuss it from the following aspects.

1. the relationship of the national source

1.1      the folk legend and the relationship of the two ethnic groups

1.2      the relationship between Xi Qiang and the two ethnic groups

1.2.1        Hehuang Qiang and the source of the two ethnic groups

1.2.2        Maoniu(Yak) Qiang and the source of the two ethnic groups

1.2.3        Bailangge( the song of the white wolf) and the source of the two ethnic groups

2. the political relationship in the history

2.1      the political relationship of the two ethnic groups in Tang and Song Dynasty

2.2      the political relationship of the two ethnic groups in Ming and Qing Dynasty

3. the relationship on the religion culture

3.1      the relationship between Hangui religion and Dongba religion

3.2      the relationship between Tibetan Buddhism and the two ethnic groups

4. the influence and mixture of the two ethnic groups

4.1      the mixture of culture

4.2      the mixture of Pumi and Naxi in different regions

4.2.1        the mixture in the southwestern area of Sichuan

4.2.2        the mixture in the northwestern area of Yunan

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