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"MeiGe" as an epic, produced in the original primitiveness national formation period. In a long historical process, it has gradually become an ethnic identity and ethnic identification cultural symbol, and at the same time, it inherits the culture knowledge, construct the belief system, standardize the behavior of the individual in special ways. Spread by word of mouth, "persistence" always combines with the local yi in production and life. On the one hand, during the evolutionary history process, people continue to add the existing knowledge accumulation of experience to the epic. Meanwhile, through the repeated performance, the local customs, social normative, the and the nation’s cultural identity have been strengthened;As an ancient song, on the one hand, it uses the form of ancient mythology to reflects the social life and yi ancient historical development process, reveal the origin of all species, national rise and the mass production and lifestyle, etc;on the other hand, thanks to the mouth inheritance way, the epic evolved into a creator dynamic process, a constant gain process. Such as "hunting and animal husbandry," "farming", "salt" and "silk" activities, this is a historical development activities. Furthermore, "the practice of marriage and love song" and "funeral" section are the key activities which were closely related with people’s real life closely related activities. These all make "MeiGe" gradually enrich with the development of history and eventually have a kind of ethnic culture "encyclopedia" nature, become the nation’s root spectrum."MeiGe" as a special folk environment, is the product of folk custom culture field which lies in marriage funeral custom, folks various ritual occasions and cult. This particular environment is the root for the epic survival and passing on, once the folk environment changes, epic heritage will lose the support to rely on, become to decay. "Nuo" as an ancient ritual, contains a rich symbols, such as hymns, curses, props, costumes, behavior, dance and so on. These symbols together formed a ritual symbol system, through this symbol system realize the talk between people and the god. Yi opera is also the same, emerged from national ancient culture, infected by MeiGe culture, it absorb the essence of the plot, artistic techniques, performance forms, realize the leap from an epic to a drama, fill the ethnic culture, provide feasible survival strategies for the update, protection and development of MeiGe culture in new times.
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