麻阳苗族自治县的盘瓠文化是我国迄今保存相对完整的原始宗教信仰文化之一,其内容十分丰富,涉及神话传说、图腾崇拜及生产、生活、礼仪、节庆等众多领域,呈现出古朴厚重、形式奇特、多元交融、地方特色浓郁等显著特点;借用多门学科的相关理论对之进行挖掘、分析表明,其不仅具有信息、教化、娱乐等社会功能,也深具历史、文化、科学、社会、伦理、旅游等多方面的研究和开发价值。
Panhu culture,exclusive to Miao Autonomous County of Mayang,is one of the well preserved and complete primitive religious cultures of China. It has plenty of contents, touching upon a lot of areas like mythological legends, totem worship and production, life, rituals and festivals and taking on manifest characteristics. They are pristine and heavy,peculiar in form. What's more,they have multiple blending and local features. By applying certain theories from multiple subjects into the exploration and analysis, we find that Panhu culture not only has the social functions of messaging, preaching and entertaining, but also bears the value of research and exploration on facets like history, culture, science, society, ethic and tourism.