The Protection and Inheritance of Manuscript Documents of Yao Ethnic Group in Northeast Guangxi

Abstract

In the long-term historical and cultural development process, Yao people created a lot of folk manuscript literature with national characteristics, these manuscripts literature is an important carrier of Yao history and culture in a specific period, but also the core of Yao spiritual culture. With the development of economy, the original ecological living environment of Yao people has changed greatly, and the environment they depend on for survival has also changed. Many Yao manuscripts of folk literature is facing the crisis of loss, so the protection and inheritance of Yao folk manuscripts of folk literature has become an important task of cultural protection of ethnic minorities. This paper selects Guangxi and Guangxi Northeast Yao manuscripts literature as the research object, the current Yao manuscripts literature protection difficulties and development strategies are summarized and found that: (1) Yao manuscripts of folk literature in the protection and inheritance of protection consciousness is not strong, There is a collision between new culture and ancient culture, the disappearance of language and the lack of traditional culture and so on. (2) In view of the manuscript literature protection and inheritance and other issues, we propose to improve the protection mechanism of Yao archives, special funding support, strengthen the digitization process of Yao documents and other manuscript literature protection and inheritance strategies and methods. This study has some implications for the protection and inheritance of Yao manuscripts.