Analysis to Yi People Cultural Connotation of the Ceremony Offering a Sacrifice to Dragon——Central on the Investigation to Baohua Village at Honghe County of Yunnan Province

Offering a sacrifice to the dragon is one kind of universai existence for ancient sacrificial offering activity in Yi nationality area of Yunnan.In person's idea of Yi nationality,thedragonalready not merely symbolizes the rain water dragon god,but was collection of many Gods to a body takingthe dragon treeas the symbolic village protection god.The goal of offering a sacrifice to the dragon mainly is for implore the good crop weather,the grainbumper harvest,also hope to use this disaster to sacrifice for avoiding calamity pray,bless the whole village safely happiness.This article mainly is located from the Honghe County village of Yi nationality offering a sacrifice to the dragon ceremony,combined with the famous French anthropologist Marcel o Mauss and the French sociologist Henri o Hubert's sacrifice theory to offers a sacrifice to the dragon ceremony and its the cultural connotation carries on the preliminary discussion.