The Yi People’s Nature Worship and the Village Arrangement in South Yunnan

The Yi people in South Yunnan believe in primitive religion and worship nature.It is believed that a man is born with a spirit.The god is made up of the god in the heaven,the god on and under the earth.The ghost is divided into the good and the evil.The heaven,the world and the afterworld altogether with other elements form the world view of the primitive religion where it is believed the god,ghost and man are living in a certain limit,thus,the activities of establishing a village and building houses are filled with a complex of the primitive sorcery.