Socio-Cultural Values and Ecological Awareness in Sakela Sili in Kirant Rai in Nepal

In the Eastern part of Nepal, Kirant Rai in traditional attires perform Sakela Sili, a dance style performed twice a yearin a larger circle to honour of Sakela, a deity in Kirant Rai community. The performance of Sakela or Sakkew involves singing and dancing simultaneously. Sakela connects the Kirant to their original source of energy, cultural root, origin and the civilization. Ethnic Kirant Rai, including youth and the old in their dance steps of working in the farmland and worshiping gods, with their hands and legs raising low and high, embody their connections to the terrestrial and celestial, profane and sacred, and the humanity and the divinity to maintain a perfect balance of art and life. The dancers in their body movements blend their passionate intensity to work and aesthetic response to art and embody socio -cultural practices and ecological awareness. While dancing, they work and dance for representing the life in totality. The Kirant Rai work pleasingly, and they dance with their strong passion to work. This paper as an instance of qualitative research employs both emic and etic perspectives to find out how such Sakela Sili performed shapes the socio - cultural values and ecological awareness among Kirant Rai community.

Research on the Protection and Inheritance of Opera Art in Linchuan Area Based on the Effectiveness Analysis of Witch Elements in Big Data Era

Opera art, which is a cultural symbol and life memory of a nation and a region, is the cultural root of people’s homesickness, which combines various artistic elements such as excellent music, dance and poetry of the Chinese nation. Witchcraft custom, which has appeared since the primitive human period, is a series of activities made by human beings to try to explain some phenomena in daily life, and to predict, influence and control the development of implementation objects with the help of illusory supernatural forces. Witches and artists have the same line of thinking-similar social identity, state in action and functions. Get the wizard thinking characteristics of the artist, and how the artist, a stealth wizard, makes the works show the same effect as witchcraft ceremony. From the perspective of big data, this paper analyzes the protection and inheritance of opera art in Linchuan area based on the effectiveness of witchcraft elements, and examines the limitations of traditional means to protect and develop opera art, aiming at protecting and inheriting the inherent folk culture of the Chinese nation.

A study of cultural reconciliation in amy Tan’s Novels

The paper analyzes how Amy Tan in her most successful novels described and designed the reconciliation between important female characters, which is also widely considered her wish for improving the relationship with her mother and her desire for seeking cultural root. It is pointed, however, that this seemingly wishful ending embodied in cultural reconciliation has a long way to go before being realized due to the actual barriers, the hybridism in cultural background, the specification of Chinese American cultural in Tan’s works, the discontinues of the cultural connection and the overemphasis on Chinese identity.

MAKNA SIMBOL NILAI KEBANGSAAN DALAM PERAYAAN ERAU

In local wisdom that has a fair value, the local community has an identity for the nationality of the country. These national values are the basis for national resilience because in these symbols there are patterns in supporting things and as a form of filtering for globalization and support for national resilience. This research aims to find out the national values through symbolic symbols in Erau traditional celebrations in Tenggarong as supporters of national resilience. Descriptive qualitative analysis with Peirce's semiotic approach to interpreting symbols in Erau celebrations that have national values. Its superiority is able to interpret symbols in the Erau context in various other fields. Erau as one of the cultural forms created by the people of Kutai Kartanegara has a symbol of nationality in every ritual in it. Overall, the indigenous people, in this case, the Kutai Kartanegara Sultanate in carrying out Erau is inseparable from the mythology they use based on the Salasilah of the Kutai Kartanegara Sultanate and also the Panji Selaten and Braja Niti books. Mythology is a cultural root that has been passed down from generation to generation as the identity of the Kutai Kartanegara Sultanate and also the patterns of life of its people. In addition, some of the rituals in Erau were designed by the Kutai Sultanate, as well as those that had rules, as a sultanate, they also had separate rules.