Historical Changes of Traditional Funeral Rites of the Yi Nationality

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10.2991/cesses-18.2018.167How to use a DOI?

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the Yi nationality; funeral rites; changes

Abstract

In the history of the Yi nationality, there were many kinds of burials, and cremation was the most important traditional one. Since the Han dynasty and throughout the dynasties, it has been recorded in Chinese literature that the Yi people were mainly cremated. After Ming and Qing dynasties, the central dynasty banned cremation and most of the Yi areas except Liangshan Yi district were forced to carry out land burial. At present, with the change of public policies, in order to save land resources, the Yi area, that was originally forced to be land burial, will gradually cremated, but its form is now different from the traditional Yi people's cremation. Liangshan Yi area, which has always kept traditional cremation, is also faced “changing customs” of the government due to its prominent economic consumption. Therefore, although the funeral ceremony is stable, it is bound to undergo drastic changes when confronted with public policies.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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