The literary traditions of ethnic minorities are rich and varied. After the founding of New China, the party and the government attached great importance to the collection, collation and translation of the literature and art of ethnic minorities. For example, Ashima, Liu Sanjie, Gada Merlin and Zhao Shutun, etc., first oral singing, then literary collation, and finally even filmed into a movie, have a great influence in the country.
Each work enriches the literary treasure house of the motherland, and because the collation work began in the fifties of the last century, it also carries the strong colors of that era, forming an effective combination between the consciousness of the Han national subject and the long-standing legend of the ethnic minorities. Among the collations and adaptations of these folk literatures at that time, Ashima is the most famous.
In 1954, Huang Tie and others, and later Gong Liu, conducted an extensive collection of "Ashima" sung by the Sani people in the Guishan area of Yunnan, and more than twenty versions were collected before and after. These twenty or so editions could not all be published, so after the collators disassembled each other, scattered, culled and added supplements, a version that was acceptable at that time was formed.
This compilation must not only have the living style of the Sani people of the Yi nationality, but also conform to the policies of the Party and the government for the Han and ethnic minorities, as well as the unique sense of class struggle of that era.
For example, some versions of Ashima only involve discord between family members and mother-in-law, and Ashima is bullied after marrying, accusing her husband's family of abusing Ashima. It doesn't make much sense to write in this way. After the refinement of the collators, the husband's family Rebubala family has become a landlord and an exploiting class, and the Ashima family is a beautiful girl in a poor family, so that when it comes to exploitation and abuse, there is the shadow of the white-haired woman of that year, reflecting class oppression and exploitation.
For example, in all versions, the relationship between Ahei brother who saved Ashima is a brother-sister relationship, and none of the versions say that Ahei and Ashima are lovers; and the competition between Ahei and Azhi also has a wife's family (uncle's family) with a large number of people and a big family. If you perform in this way, you will blur the class difference, and between brothers and sisters, it is far less than between lovers, so in the film directed by Liu Qiong, it has changed further. For another example, ethnic minority areas originally had the custom of "robbing marriages", which was only the customs and customs of ethnic minorities, which may indicate that the ethnic minorities at that time were not too far away from primitive society or slave society. The marriage in the Han area is to go up to the flower palanquin and carry the flower palanquin. However, the marriage snatching shown in the movie is completely the bullying and trampling of the oppressed by the oppressors.
In other words, in the literary literature of the 1950s, Ashima concentrated on class struggle and exploitation and oppression in ethnic minority areas, especially in film. In fact, the beautiful legend of an ethnic minority should show enough folk factors, since the original Ashima legend can have more than twenty versions, if there is a film and television drama screenwriter director to reconsider and re-create, it should produce a new Ashima image.
However, after the reform and opening up, literature in ethnic minority areas, especially film and television dramas, has become less and less in Han areas, and has almost disappeared. For example, the braid drama of the Qing Dynasty cannot be regarded as a minority ethnic theme, and "The Legend of the Hero of Donggui" can. As for the ethnic themes in the south, which number only a few hundred thousand and a million, they are basically ignored. In the past, "Daji and Her Father" and "Jingpo Girl" were generally the salvation of ethnic minorities by Han consciousness as the main body, and this model.
But in any case, using Ashima as a cigarette brand is not appropriate in any case.