1、To participate in religious rites of worship.

2、render holy by means of religious rites.

3、 Tired of playing and pushing boats, I am not interested in anything except pushing boats from morning to night every day. I am in a mess.

4、Wan Sitong, Qing scholar, believed that there were several new and unusual practices in religious rites at the Imperial Ancestral Temple of the Yuan Dynasty, some even in violation of classical rites.

5、Folk cultural images originate from ancient legends and their related religious rites. They are the vehicles of the existence situation of the primitive people and their ways of thinking.

6、As time goes by, this ritual has gradually been separated from the religious rites and developed into an independent folk art in the form of story-telling and singing.

7、The themes of the Yi woodcut cover a wide range of topics such as commodity exchanges. religious rites,punitive expeditions,mediation of matrimonial disputes and politics. Their cultural interpretation is a new approach to a better unde-standing of the traditional culture of the Yi nationality.