FROM CEREMONY TO CAMPUS SPORTS: IDENTITY RECONSTRUCTION OF THE YI FUNERAL DANCE KAHONGBEI RESEARCH ON THE INHERITANCE PATH OF COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES
Keywords:
Kahongbei, Yi funeral dance, College sports, National sports dance, Inheritance pathAbstract
This paper takes the Yi funeral ritual dance "Kahongbei" as the research object. Through literature review, participant observation, and anaf the action recordings of Kahongbei, this study investigates the feasibility of its transmission within the context of university physical education. The research reveals that the 25 traditional dance segmenof Kahongbei embody cultural connotations related to Yi hunting, farming, communal cooperation, and expressions of life and death. However, current social transmission faces challenges such as the dissolution of rital contexts, weakening of kinship bonds, and generational disconnection in family transmission, as well as structural deficiencies in educational ecosystems and curriculum systems within school transmission. The study proposes establishing an ticity-based action preservation database, enhancing the cultural symbol translation and sports-oriented deconstruction of Kahongbei, promoting university pilot programs and tiered teaching, and strengthening faculty development and professional capacty building. These measures aim to facilitate the transition of the Yi traditional dance Kahongbei from a funeral ritual to a campus sports activity, providing a theoretical foundation of "action-coure-education" trinity for the living transmission of ethnic traditional sports dances.References
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