The tradition of ancestor worship and the perception that the soul still exists after death mean that the Yi people take funerals very seriously.Their grand funeral rites are a concrete manifestation of this ancestor worship.Southwest China is home to a large and widely distributed number of Yi sub- The tradition of ancestor worship and the perception that the soul still exists after death mean that the Yi people take funerals very seriously .irir grand funeral rites are a concrete manifestation of this ancestor worship .outhwest China is home to a large and widely distributed number of Yi sub-