关键词: 滇南, 彝族, 糯食文化, 具体表现, 成因

Abstract: The Yi, together with the Dai, the Hani, the Zhuang, the Buyi, the Miao, the Yao, the Lahu and other peoples inhabiting south Yunnan, have created and passed down the glutinous food culture. From the perspectives of ethnology, botany, folklore and religion, this paper analyzes and discusses the development and varieties of glutinous rice cultivated by the Yi people in south Yunnan as well as the origin and specific forms of glutinous food culture. The research indicates that the Yi people in south Yunnan have a long history of growing glutinous rice of a large variety and have a colorful glutinous food culture. Likewise, the author contends that their glutinous food culture has been a medium through which their ancestors and ancestral gods communicated with the natural gods, a linkage connecting kins and even villages, a symbol of their normative ethics, a holy offering to their deities and, most importantly, a necessary choice and concrete embodiment of their wisdom gained through millennia of struggle for survival.

Key words: south Yunnan, the Yi people, glutinous food culture, concrete embodiment, origin