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Paper short abstract:

The ritual of offering a sacrifice to Heaven，cultural transmission

Paper long abstract:

As the process of open and reform continues to proceed and the economic globalization develops, the politic, economic, and cultural environment also begins to change mightily in china, which also caused the continuous damage to the base of traditional culture. It is a challenging to the traditional culture and ecological harmony in ethnic groups' region.

The Naxi minority, living in the northwest area of China with a population of 300 thousand, created its own traditional culture，which brought praises from people all over the world. Faced with the crush from economic globalization and parlous crisis, the Naxi culture picked up an active attitude to cope with and search for an appropriate way to preserve itself, among which to rekindle the ritual of offering a sacrifice to Heaven is an important one. The Naxi minority had been once called as "Naxi mu by de" which means that the Naxi people took the ritual of offering a sacrifice as the most important one. The ritual of offering a sacrifice to Heaven, as the most important ritual of Naxi people in history, once disappeared because of the complicate backgrounds and reasons, has now been recovering quietly. Given this situation, the thesis, based on the return of the ritual of offering a sacrifice to Heaven in the Xinzhu Village, Ludian Township, Naxi Minority Antonymous County, Lijiang City, tries to explore the cultural implication and social function, and give some advices on how to bring back the ethic groups' cultural traditions