Ritual,Myth and Social Remembrance——A Cultural Investigation on the Funeral Ritual of Miao Nationality in Guankou Community of Big Four Community Village in Ziyun Miao and Buyi Nationality Autonomous County,Guizhou Province

In the early anthropological research,ritual and myth are closely related.Based on the description and analysis on the funeral ritual in Big Four Community village in Ziyun Miao and Bouyei Nationality Autonomous County,Guizhou Province,the paper has made a localized theoretical explanation on conceptions of ritual,myth and social remembrance.The phenomenon which is represented by the cultural combination of the funeral ritual of Miao Nationality and the myth of King Yalu is exactly social remembrance of an ethnic group in the long historical process in ancient times.