Aesthetics and Nationality Origin——A probe into the nationality origin of Yelang inhabitants at Kele of Hezhang County

The nationality origin of Yelangese is one of the controversial issues without a common view by scholars in the field of the relevant study.Such a study is mostly carried out from the perspectives of history,archeology and ethnology.But it can be carried out from the perspectives of the sense of aesthetics and nationality based on the unearthed cultural relics and literature.The unearthed cultural relics at Kele in Hezhang,the Yin Dynasty Ruins in Guizhou,are simple but beautiful in shape.The worship of bamboo by the Gelao people who have lived in the area generation after generation as peasants,is similar to the nationality of Baiyue and Baipu systems in the category of their elegancy of aesthetics but greatly difference from nationality feature of worshiping fire and tigers by the Yi nationality of the Diqiang system.It can thus be deemed that the nationality origin of the inhabitants at Kele,Hezhang,is the Pu people,ancestors of the Gelaos.They had built up the town of Kele but after the Yi invaded,the Kingdom of Yelang was established at the site of Kele.The Yi becomes the ruling nationality of the kingdom.