Influence of Original Religion on the Traditional Sports Culture of Yi Nationality——Taking Sports Dance of Yi Nationality as an Example

By using the method of documentary,comparison and logic inference,this paper discusses the issues related to the forms of expression and function and influence of original religion on the sports dance of Yi nationality.The result shows that sports dance of Yi nationality is mainly reflected in festival activities,ritual activities and funeral activities.It has multiple functions such as amusing,entertaining,entertaining god and entertaining apparition.The main function of sports dance is changing in different places.Original religion has important influence on the sports dance of Yi nationality and this kind of influence is with a dual character.