侗族丧葬仪式音乐的社会功能探析——以黔东南黎平县龙额村为例

Social Functions of Ritual Music of Dong Funeral Ceremony

侗族丧葬仪式是侗族人民的一项重要人生仪礼,它的内容和形式与侗族人民的宗教信仰观念有着密切关系,反映了侗族社会的民间传统习俗文化。仪式音乐作为丧葬仪式的组成部分,在仪式过程中担负着不同类型的角色,有赞颂亡者功德、沟通人神对话等媒介的作用。解读龙额侗族丧葬仪式音乐文化,分析其文化内涵及社会功能,对了解和研究侗族丧葬仪式特征,具有重要的价值和意义。

The funeral ceremony of Dong is an important ritual for Dong people. There is a close relationship between its religious concepts and its form and content, reflecting the traditional customs and culture of Dong. As a part of the funeral ceremony, the ritual music plays a different type of roles in it： praising the dead, and communicating with God, and so on. This paper studies the culture of its funeral music and analyzes its cultural connotations and social functions for better understanding characteristics of the Dong funeral ceremony, which has important value and significance.