Abstract: Erhai Lake is a jewel embedded in the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau; Erhai Lake region is one
of the birthplace of the ancient civilization of Yunnan. Bai people in Erhai Lake feeding to
create the unique culture of Dali social, in excellent social culture of Bai people, it often
reflects some living wisdom how Bai people deal with the relationship between human and
nature, this wisdom is the view of ecological environment. Bai fisherman's view on ecological
environment is one of the important content of traditional culture inheritance, it is the
significance and value of this traditional view which makes the ecological system of Erhai
Lake in a state of balance for thousands of years. In recent years, how to governance and
protect the ecological environment of Erhai lake is faced with enormous pressures. With the
investigations and studies of the view of ecological environment of Bai fisherman, we can
absorb some useful elements of them, which can provide intellectual support for the protection
and management of Erhai, Dianchi or other plateau lakes. This paper is adopting Field research method of ethnology, documentary method and
comparative method as the main research methods. The content is divided into five chapters, The first chapter introduced general situation of ecological environment of Erhai Lake, Bai
fisherman's history, distribution and daily basic necessities of life. The second to the fourth
chapters described the Bai fisherman' fishery activities, religious belief and the folk literatures, discussed the ecological wisdom behind some basic culture phenomenons of those three
aspects which contained in Bai fisherman's daily life; the fifth chapter summed up the
connotation and characteristics of Bai fisherman's ecological environment view, and discussed
the effective operation mechanism and the value. Through the comparative studies on non
fisherman groups and within groups of fisherman, The relationship between Bai society and
the traditional view of ecological environment is particularly close. Bai fisherman's view of ecological environment included three levels. They are ideology, languages and behavior activities which together form a circulatory system who can make
effect to each other. Bai fisherman's ecological view has four characteristics, mainly reflected
by controlling themselves consciously, changing fishery activities with the season, harmonious
symbiosis, blood inheritance. Bai fisherman's view of ecological environment through the
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languages and behavior system to play its function and value. From the space, we could make
Erhai Lake into “East” and “West” to understand the groups of fisherman and non fisherman
groups, and due to natural environmental differences, the religious belief of fisherman belong
to “South” and “North” belief circle. It shows the social phenomenon that cultural is different
in Dali society closely related to the ecological environment of Erhai . The author in field survey collected a large number of first-hand informations, and
systematically analyzed the view of ecological environment of Bai fisherman who is living
surrounding the Erhai Lake, expanded the Bai culture study and the fisherman of minority
nationality. Regard Erhai Area as a study case, from the means of livelihood, religious belief, collective memory, in-depth discussed the mechanism of action for Bai fisherman's view of
ecological environment in a specific spatial, and the relationship between the view and the
social culture. At the same time, the depth of the research also had got some breakthroughs. Considering the number of fields, the content of informations covered widely，the depth and
breadth of this thesis still have some places which can be improved.
2016