Chapter 1653 Can't delay
"Then let me change it to our country's own definition." Seeing that Tu Liangzhi was a little confused, Zhou Zhi said: "In our country, intangible cultural heritage refers to all ethnic groups. Traditional cultural expressions passed down from generation to generation by a people and regarded as part of their cultural heritage, As well as physical objects and places related to traditional cultural expressions"
"Refined to specific projects, they should include: traditional oral literature and the language as its carrier; traditional art, calligraphy, music, and dance. , drama, folk arts and acrobatics; traditional skills, medicine and calendar; tradition Etiquette, festivals and other folk customs; traditional sports and entertainment; other intangible cultural heritage.”
“To put it more bluntly, my country’s intangible cultural heritage should include folk literature, traditional music, and traditions of various ethnic groups. Dance, traditional drama, folk arts, traditional sports, entertainment and acrobatics, traditional Traditional arts, traditional skills, traditional medicine, folk customs are roughly these, as well as the utensils, production tools, processing places and performance places needed to match these skills."
Wu Renzhong was dumbfounded: "This... ...Old man, this seems to be all your job..."
The Yi people have their own language and writing, also called "Cuanwen" and "Yishu". Many books from the Ming and Qing dynasties said that this kind of writing has "characters like tadpoles" and "alphabets of one thousand eight hundred and forty".
There are different opinions on when the Yi script originated, but what can be confirmed is that it has a very long history, far exceeding the Chinese characters.
A number of engraved symbols unearthed from Pengtoushan in Li County, Jiahu in Wuyang and other places can be interpreted in ancient Yi script. If calculated based on this, the ancient Yi script must have a long history of more than 9,000 years. Including its initial creation period, it may be more than 10,000 years old.
It is not an exaggeration to call it "the ancestor of world writing".
Unlike the single legend about the creation of characters by Cangjie of the Han people, there are as many as seven legends about the creation of characters by the Yi people.
The main forms of Yi literature that are spread and preserved in Yi areas include rock scripts, cloth books, leather books, paper books, tile books, wooden slips, bamboo slips, bone carvings, wood carvings, gold and stone inscriptions, seals, etc., most of which are paper Book.
The vast majority of Yi books are copied into paper books from generations to generations based on the content and format passed down from generation to generation by bimo. They are copied from classics and oral traditions that are not paper writing materials.
Since there has never been a real separation of witchcraft and history in the history of Yi social development, most Yi documents were copied and passed down from generation to generation by Bimo, the Yi shaman, and were mostly used for witchcraft. Therefore, Yi literature is still at the stage of integrating multiple disciplines with primitive religion as the main representation, and most of them have not yet formed specialized works with distinctive disciplinary characteristics.
The content is also all-inclusive without subdividing into monographs. The content can include religion, history, musical records, mythology, philosophy, ethics, astronomy, geography, literature, medicine, agriculture, etc. Animal husbandry, military affairs, contracts, account books, notices, translations, texts, etc. are very rich.
So every bimo must know Yi calligraphy, as well as learn, interpret and carry forward these contents in the scriptures.
They need to inherit folk literature and national history; when engaging in activities such as offering sacrifices, eliminating disasters, praying for blessings, and divination, they need to be familiar with traditional music, cooperate with traditional dances, and even include traditional martial arts.
They are also responsible for hosting weddings and celebrations, so they must be familiar with traditional arts, entertainment, acrobatics, and folk customs.
Because we often need to treat illnesses and save lives, we are also familiar with traditional medicine.
There are also a large set of rules for the various utensils required in activities and the tools for making them.
Witch doctors, divination and history have not been divided into different families since ancient times. All these added together are Bimo.
"Angkor is absolutely right." Zhou Zhi smiled and saluted Chiri: "People like the old man have a special title in our country's initiative to the United Nations, that is, 'inheriters of intangible cultural heritage.'"< br>
"But...ten years ago, ah no, twenty years ago, that's not what they said..." "Brother Tu, you said it yourself, that was twenty years "Previously." Zhou Zhi said: "Many things that everyone thought were correct twenty years ago are not necessarily correct now."
"To use an old saying in the newspaper, This is a new era, new problems, and new methods.”
“And similar things have not been done before.”
"As far as I know, the classics of the Yi people were first scattered in the vast mountains. The history of Shuixi Rewo Tumu Mo in the Qing Dynasty was collected after Wu Sangui pinged Shuixi and before Yongzheng changed his land to Guiliu in the seventh year. Many Yi literary and historical chapters have been handed down from ancient times. It was revised and compiled into a historical document called "Ai Bu Ha E". "
The ancestors of the Yi people believed that the continuous movement of clear and turbid air produced a pair of the most basic material elements - Ai. Bu, on the basis of Yibu, all things came into being.
This is the basic view of the ancient philosophy of the Yi people. In fact, it is very similar to the Han people's theory that chaos generates two qi to form Tai Chi, and then two qi generates three and three generates all things.
This book has this name for this reason.
“This book has a total of more than 300,000 words and 400 themes. It mainly reflects the ancient Yi people’s understanding of the universe and the origin of human beings and the economic, political and cultural life of the ancient Yi society. It is completely a book about the Yi people. Encyclopedia of Ancient Society ”
"To translate it according to the meaning, and if it still has that kind of taste, this book should originally be called "Treatise on Two Instruments and Three Lives", but later because of its content, it was directly translated into "History of the Southwest Yi"."
“Further back, it was the late Qing Dynasty. At that time, rumors from outside the area Priests, according to Western customs, call ancient books recorded on goatskin 'sheepskin books'. "
"In 1898, the Catholic missionary Vuillard published his translation of the Yi language. "The Myth of the Origin of the Universe", this is the first time that Yi culture has gone to the world and created a Known to outsiders. "
"In the winter of 1930, a famous geologist named Ding Wenjiang made a huge contribution to the release of these "sheepskin books" from the mountains. Ding Wenjiang was originally the director of the China Geological Survey. After arriving in Liangshan, I was introduced to a 70-year-old local Yi man. Intellectual Mr. Luo Wenbi, the two sides agreed that Luo would translate ancient Yi books using phonetic transliteration, Chinese literal translation, and Chinese free translation. "
"This translation method is called the four-line translation method, which later became the method. The classic way of Yi translation.”
"In 1936, Ding Wenjiang submitted the eleven Yi classics translated by Luo, entitled "Cuan Wen Cong Ke", to the Commercial Press for publication, setting a precedent for scientific translation and collation of ancient Yi books."
< br>"Once this way is opened, the method Even if the discussion was established, after the founding of New China, many Yi classics began to be compiled, translated and published."
"However, this work was quickly interrupted."
"Yi classics , has encountered two disasters in history, one was Wu Sangui's Ping Shuixi, and the other was twenty years ago." Zhou Zhi said seriously: "If the classics that were lost in the troubled times were not collected, translated and preserved before the prosperous times came. If it gets up, it may disappear completely. This will be an irreparable loss to the culture of the Yi people, China's culture, and even the cultural diversity of the world."
"So this matter is really. It can’t be delayed.”