ON THE CULTURAL ECOLOGY OF RICE CULTIVATING NATIONS IN YUNNAN
研究了云南稻作民族如何通过文化适应多样地理环境，形成各具特色的部落分布、祭祀、宗教和生态平衡方式，对理解民族与自然互动有参考价值。
The culture of rice cultivating is a great social achievement of active fitting the living condition among the rice cultivating nations in Yunnan. The living condition of rice cultivating nations of Yunnan is various. The varieties can be seen as internal crisscrossing partition, broken and closed terrain, and regional transition. Yunnan is a transitional region between Qingzang plateau and Eastern Plain and hilly land; and is a transitional region among East Asian continent, South Asian sub-continent and Mid-south Peninsula. Chinese culture, Indian culture and Mid-south Peninsula culture exchange here, and they just merge with the local culture, and the three big tribes in ancient time live and cultivate here till today. These varieties provide a natural transition for all sorts of various natural environments and cultures and create many sub-types of culture which are of their own characteristics. Every rice cultivating nation in Yunnan has formed its own national characteristic of tribe distribution, its own sacrifice to Heaven, its own religion and its own method of keeping ecological balance.