{"id":6412,"date":"2019-11-16T10:00:53","date_gmt":"2019-11-16T10:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/chinese-culture\/dongba-art-in-china-dong-ba-yi-shu-zai-zhong-guo\/"},"modified":"2019-11-16T10:00:53","modified_gmt":"2019-11-16T10:00:53","slug":"dongba-art-in-china-dong-ba-yi-shu-zai-zhong-guo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/dongba-art-in-china-dong-ba-yi-shu-zai-zhong-guo\/","title":{"rendered":"Dongba Art in China \u4e1c\u5df4\u827a\u672f\u5728\u4e2d\u56fd"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The <\/span>Do<\/em>ngba Art<\/strong>(\u4e1c\u5df4\u827a\u672fD\u014dngb\u0101 yìshù) is the primitive religious art special of the Naxi ethnics who live in the fro<\/em>ntier area of southwest China and believe in Do<\/em>ngba place. Do<\/em>ngba religion got its name from the fact that the priest of the religion is called "Dongba" by the ethnic people. The religion has exerted very great influence on the material and spiritual lives of the Naxi people since ancient times. It has given birth to the time-ho<\/em>nored Do<\/em>ngba culture, among which Do<\/em>ngba Art is the most glaring and beautiful part. The artistic forms include Do<\/em>ngba painting, Do<\/em>ngba literature, music and dance, so on and so forth. So it is a rich and colorful ethnic art treasure.<\/p>\n

Do<\/em>ngba paintings can be divided into wood chip paintings, card paintings, bamboo paintings and s<\/em>cripture paintings. They usually use gods, ghosts, spirit, people, animals and plants as well as the myth and legend of Do<\/em>ngba religion as the subjects. In the techniques and forms of painting, for the influence of foreign religions, especially Tibetan Buddhism, the primitive unsophisticated and natural character of Do<\/em>ngba painting is added with luxuriant color. Pilgrimage Road is the most representative work in the scroll paintings. Do<\/em>ngba literature which is represented by Do<\/em>ngba s<\/em>cripture describes various myth and artistic characters and the world that is full of romantic and wo<\/em>nderful things. The s<\/em>cripture is of very high literature value. Do<\/em>ngba music mainly refers to the arias when Do<\/em>ngba recites and sings the s<\/em>cripture in ceremo<\/em>nies and the cadence that Do<\/em>ngba takes part in the tutti of people in some ceremonies. The dance of Do<\/em>ngba on their sacrifice ceremo<\/em>nies is called Do<\/em>ngba dance, which has kept the characters of the primitive dances. There are various musical instruments which can be used to accompany the Do<\/em>ngba musical dance, usually including plate boll, copper gong, large drum, lute and so on.<\/p>\n

To date, we can still detect the trace of pictograph in Do<\/em>ngba culture. Compared with other ancient characters in the world, Do<\/em>ngba pictograph can still be recognized, interpreted and adopted by the living Dongba, as a result, it is called "living pictograph". A lot of puppets, dough idols, clay sculptures and various bamboo and wood plaited articles made for religious and sacrifice ceremonies. These things are characterized by unique molding and vividness; thus, they reflect the artistic essence of Do<\/em>ngba Art.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n