{"id":6569,"date":"2019-11-19T02:39:03","date_gmt":"2019-11-19T02:39:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/chinese-culture\/ashima\/"},"modified":"2019-11-19T02:39:03","modified_gmt":"2019-11-19T02:39:03","slug":"ashima","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/vi\/ashima\/","title":{"rendered":"Ashima"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span>  <\/p>\n<p>Ashima is spread in the Yi Auto<em><\/em>nomous County ,  in&nbsp;Shilin of Yunnan Province. It is a long narrative poem of the Sani  people who are a tributary of the Yi ethnic group. Generations after  generations of the Sani people narrate or sing the story of Ashima with  oral poem language.<\/p>\n<p>The story goes like this: Ashima, a clever, kind, beautiful and  diligent farmhouse girl falls in love with a brave and good-natured  sheepherder who is called Ahei. Azhi, the son of a headman also admires  Ashima, but was resolutely refused by the latter. Then, Azhi sent  someone to compel Ashima into marriage with him, however, again refused  firmly. So Azhi sent some people to rob Ashima when Ahei was away from  home. Later, Ahei heard of the news and rushed home and saved Ashima.  Azhi proposed to hold a song competition with Ahei, thereby, determines  who the winner is. The result turns out that Azhi failed out. But he was  still not willing to admit the failure. Taking advantage of the chance  when Ashima and Ahei were resting by the side of a stream, he raised the  floodgate and drowned Ashima. Ahei sadly called the name of Ashima, but  she had become a lofty stone statue. Now, the legend has become a part  of the daily life, wedding and funeral ceremo<em><\/em>nies and other customs of  the Sani people, thus, sang from generation to generation among the  people.&nbsp;<span>&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>  <\/span><span><span>The long poem Ashima adopts romantic poetic technique  and rich figures of speech to highlight the kindness and beauty, wisdom  and power, diligence and braveness of the character. It is  affectio<em><\/em>nately called by the Sani people as &quot;the song of our ethics&quot;,  and Ashima even becomes the anto<em><\/em>nomasia of the women of the Yi ethics.  It demo<em><\/em>nstrates the human ideal that light will final substitute  darkness, and kindness and beauty will eventually triumph over infamy.  It reflects the natio<em><\/em>nal character and spirit of pursuing freedom of the  Sani people of the Yi ethnics. At present, the story of Ashima has been  translated into more than 20 languages and issued at home and abroad.  In addition, the story was adopted and shot into Ashima, the first color  film of the People&#8217;s Republic of China.<\/span><br \/>  <br type=\"_moz\" \/>  <\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"chine-tie-zi-nei-rong-zhi-hou\" id=\"chine-3471280175\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1889418300638825\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1889418300638825\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"7273022922\" \ndata-ad-layout-key=\"-gw-3+1f-3d+2z\"\ndata-ad-format=\"fluid\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ashima is spread in the Yi Autonomous County ,  in&nbsp;Shilin of Yunnan Province. It is a long narrative poem of the Sani  people who are a tributary of the Yi ethnic group. 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