Wang shiying 王世英 Lijiang Dongbainstitute

Living in the southwest of China, at the border of Yunnan, Sichuan and Tibet, there are many independent tribes of Na People from the ancient time. People used similar pronunciation but different Chinese characters like “Moxie”, “Mosha”, “Mosuo”, “Mexie”, “Mesha”, “Moxi” and so on to record the tribes in Chinese written records. Now the academic circles separate Naxi area by the Golden River to the east language area and the west area. The people of the west regard them as Naxi People; some of the people in the east take them as Naxi(the people in the Muli County of Sichuan Province and the people in the Dazhu Village by the Lugu Lake), but most of them call themselves as the Na branches. Some east people accept the given name “Mosuo” by other people to call themselves as “Mosuo People” or “Meng People” because of academic and other factors influence, like the people around Yongning of Nilang County. The people around there live together and have the same names, but separate to Na People in Lijiang and Meng People in Yanyuan County of Sichuan Province. This kind of names cause a lot of difficulties to academic circles.

The article will introduce the religions, customs, marriage, language, clothes, and so on of Na people groups, and will point out the similarities and differences of Na People branches, and will analyze the reasons.

The writer once made field survey at the border of Yunnan and Sichuan, and made research of Naxi culture for many years, so can accurately catch the similarities and differences of Na People branches. This research will help with understanding and unity of Na People, and obviously have lots of practical significances.

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Hongyuan He, Shaoying He

This article focuses on the protection and inheritance of Naxi village culture during the tourism development process. There is a close relationship between the protection and inheritance of traditional ethnic culture and the development of tourism and other industries in ethnic areas. Both sides can benefit from each other by rightly handling their relationship. The effects of tourism on socio-culture have long been discussed by anthropologists and ethnologists since 1960s. People have become increasingly realized that tourism, positively or negatively, is bringing the local people some changes in the aspects of economy, society and culture.

The traditional culture area of Naxi ethnic group in Yuhu village, Baisha Township, known as one of the first batch of non-material culture heritages in Yunnan province, has its vitality actually exit in its local people, where the spirits and emotion integrated. Naxi village culture is just like a flower blossoming gradually, attracting attention from innumerable persons. However, the conservation and inheritance of it is fragile.

This article chooses Yuhu village as the site of fieldwork, investigates and analyzes the current state of Naxi ethnic village culture in the process of tourism development, and explores the solution to culture protection by the theory of culture conflict and cultural change. The full text altogether is divided into five parts:

Ⅰ. Introduction

This part mainly introduces the geographical conditions, the natural environment and the social situations in Yuhu village, which provide rich resources for the development of tourism in Yuhu village.

Ⅱ. The process of tourism development and the condition of economic development in Yuhu village.

Ⅲ. The effect of tourism development on Naxi ethnic village culture in Yuhu village. < NT>

This part, by investigating, will describe the tourism development and the current condition of village culture change.

Ⅳ.  Tourism development is combined with the conservation and inheritance of village culture in Yuhu village.

This part will point out that tourism has both positive and negative effects. Tourism has brought cultural conflict and change to some extent. A new cultural ecology can be formed only by organically fusing tourism development and the protection and inheritance of village culture.

Ⅴ. Conclusion .As an American scholar, Fox, puts it, tourism is a fire, so not only it could help you cook your food but also burn down your house AN>. According to the investigation of what has been mentioned above, the author come to the conclusion that in the process of modernizatio every one in every village is inevitably involved in and they also cause the conflict changes of culture. Tourism offers Naxi village an opportunity to gain economic interests. What’s more, it makes the value of ethnic culture rise. However, inevitably, the tourism also causes the edging of culture under the pressure of strong culture. The villagers are in a dilemma. The way of getting out of the dilemma is to protect and inherit the culture through active conscious culture behavior and to set up a new ecological system of village culture on the basis of actively absorbing and combining the modern culture.

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