Once upon a time, a beautiful girl was born to the poor Gelu Riming family in the Adi region, and her parents named her "Ashima" because they wanted their daughter to be as precious and glittering as gold. Ashima was not only beautiful, but also could sing and dance well, and many young men loved her. She fell in love with her childhood friend, the orphan Ah Hei, and vowed not to marry him. One year on the torch festival, she and the smart and brave Ah Hei engaged. The son of the rich man Rebubala, Azhi, who also had a crush on the beautiful Ashima, asked the matchmaker to go and talk to him about marriage, but no matter how much he threatened to lure him, it was to no avail.
The Rebubala family took advantage of the opportunity of the Ahei to go far away to graze sheep, sent people to snatch Ashima and forced her to marry Azhi, Ashima vowed not to obey, was whipped and put into the black prison. Hei heard the news, day and night to come to the rescue of Ashima, he and the branch of the race song, cut trees, trees, seed, all won the branch. He was so angry that he instructed his servants to release three tigers to pounce on Ah Hei, who killed the tigers with three arrows and rescued Ashima.
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The original form of the Ashima was composed in the Sani Yi language, which is the crystallization of the collective wisdom of the Sani people after thousands of years of refinement, and has a wide mass appeal. It is mainly circulated in Shilin Yi Autonomous County, Yunnan Province, inhabited by the Hani people of Yi nationality, and is divided into two similar genres in the north and south.
The Ashima has a long history. About the origin of "Asima", the academic community has different views, some researchers believe that it was born in the primitive period of slash-and-burn society, formed in the feudal period, across the course of development of the human society if a thousand, and created in the Sani Yi language and passed on by word of mouth from one generation to the next.
Because it has been transmitted in the Sani language for thousands of years, it is only in modern times that the outside world has come to know of the Asima.