Ashima is famous overseas.
"Bells ring, bluebirds sing, I accompany Ashima back to my hometown ..." Many people in China are familiar with the mention of Ashima. Ashima, a beautiful and kind girl from Sani of Yi nationality, did not bow to evil forces for love and happiness, and finally turned into a stone statue, looking forward to the return of her beloved black brother every day. This beautiful and moving legend was adapted into the film Ashima in the early 1960s. As a symbol of pursuing loyal love, freedom and happiness, Ashima's story is widely circulated.
Today, Ashima is not only a representative of a nation, but also a well-known figure in China. Her name has already crossed the ocean and is well known to anthropologists, ethnologists and tourists at home and abroad all over the world.
In early autumn, the third international symposium on Yi studies was held in Shilin Yi Autonomous County, Yunnan Province, Ashima's hometown. Scholars from different countries and nationalities gathered together to discuss the Yi culture in China extensively. Ashima has once again become the focus of attention of scholars from all over the world.
Centennial easy research returns to hometown.
The Yi nationality is an ancient minority living in the southwest of China, and the Sani people to which Ashima belongs are a branch of the Yi nationality. For thousands of years, the Yi people have been recuperating in this beautiful and magical land. They not only established several regimes here, such as ancient Dian, Yi, Luodian and Nanzhao, but also created ancient civilizations such as bronzes and October solar calendar, and created and used written records of their own national languages earlier. They wrote countless works on social history, religious etiquette, literature and art, philosophy and so on, leaving a legacy for the Chinese nation.
Yi people's long history, mysterious and creative culture and complex social form have aroused great concern of Chinese and foreign scholars. Counting the history of 100 years, Yi studies have become a multidisciplinary and international research field. /kloc-In the second half of the 9th century, European scholars, explorers, travelers and missionaries went to China Yi area for investigation, exploration and missionary work. They investigated the social history, language and culture of the Yi branches such as Sani, Ashi and Sunuo, and published a large number of Yi works, which initiated the study of the Yi people. In 1930s and 1940s, scholars such as Fei Xiaotong, Lin, Yang Chengzhi and others made investigations and studies on the society, history, religion, language and literature of Yi people in Yunnan and Sichuan, and achieved remarkable results. In 1950s, China identified the branches of the Yi people, and investigated the Yi language, social history and social form of the Yi people in Liangshan, and achieved fruitful results.
Since the reform and opening up, the research team of Yi-ology in China has been growing, and the research of Yi-ology has made remarkable achievements, and the international exchanges and cooperation of Yi-ology have also increased day by day. From 65438 to 0995, the first international seminar on Yi-ology was held in Washington University. During the period of 1998, many scholars hoped that the third international seminar on Yi studies would be held in China, the hometown of Yi people and the birthplace of Yi studies. After more than a year's careful preparation, the third international seminar on Yi studies sponsored by the Central University for Nationalities was held in Shilin Yi Township from September 4 to 7 as scheduled. After a hundred years' study of Yi-ology, I finally returned to my birthplace.
A grand event of cross-cultural communication
More than 65,438+000 scholars from 65,438+00 countries, including the United States, Germany, France, Australia, Finland, Poland, Japan, South Korea, Viet Nam and China, participated in this year's international Yi-ology seminar. Among them, there are famous foreign scholars such as Professor Hao Rui, an anthropologist from Washington University in the United States, Professor Heibel, director of the Institute of East Asian Studies in university of duisburg-essen, and Professor Ryuhiko Sakurai from Nagoya University in Japan, as well as senior Yi experts from China and many young Yi scholars.
Ba Maw Ayi, vice chairman of the organizing committee of the conference, the first female doctor of Yi nationality in China and director of the international exchange department of Minzu University of China, said: "This conference is a great academic exchange between Chinese and foreign scholars, and its scale, content and research level are higher than those of the previous two sessions. It can be called a grand event in the field of international Yi studies. "
This seminar is held under the background of the national strategy of developing the western region, so the theme is "Yi traditional culture and Yi social and economic changes". Around this theme of great practical significance, the participating scholars had extensive and enthusiastic discussions on such topics as economic development and education, social changes and ethnic relations, history and culture, language and literature, literature and folk culture, traditional beliefs and religions.
Professor Hao Rui, who is dressed in traditional Yi costumes, thinks in his academic speech that the history and culture of the Yi people are very rich, and if there is no social and cultural information of the Yi people in other disciplines, there will be no important cases. He pointed out that in the social and economic changes of the Yi people, how should traditional culture be combined with modernization? How to understand the contribution of Yi culture to China culture and world culture? How to understand the position of Yi culture in world culture? These problems discussed in this seminar will lay a good foundation for the future study of Yi-ology.
It can be seen from more than 30 papers/kloc-0 received at the conference that the economic development, social changes and cultural changes in Yi areas are issues of general concern to Chinese and foreign scholars. Among them, Ashima is an important research object of scholars. Professor Speiji of the University of California, Davis, in his paper "Where did Ashima come from: Sani people, Yi culture and cosmopolitanism", made a unique analysis of the process of Ashima's evolution from Sani folk custom to a world-famous image. China scholars put forward positive suggestions on developing tourism resources in the west from Ashima's story.
At the seminar, scholars from all over the world fully expressed their academic views and showed different research perspectives and methods. Surprisingly, almost all foreign scholars speak fluent Chinese, and some even speak Yi and Sani. The meeting was lively, frank and harmonious. Many scholars reported that this seminar gained a lot through cross-cultural academic exchanges, sharing information and making friends.
Accompanied by Ashima's beautiful and moving singing voice, the 4-day third international seminar on Yi-ology was a complete success, which marked that the study of Yi-ology entered a new stage. As Professor Hao Rui said, "If the first seminar sowed a seed that is easy to learn, it has now grown into a big tree. I hope to become a forest in the future. "
Is that enough?