Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Naxi scholars: Dongba cultural heritage is a systems engineering

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Lijiang Dongba Cultural Research Institute researcher and force the people, is a well-known large Naxi Dongba. He was born Dongba family, school, when the first contact Dongba scriptures have been attracted in 1982 after graduating from college, returned home to concentrate on research Dongba culture.

Either research or heritage Dongba culture, and force the people are always at the forefront. As a large Dongba, he had a big thanks to respected Dongba A study was as a teacher, fluent in hundreds of Dongba ceremony; as a scholar, in terms of religion, ethnology, history and other disciplinary perspective, to explore the Dongba culture, Dongba classic mystery. Now, his main job is to promote the Dongba culture in all levels of transmission.

This reporter recently interviewed in the Dongba Culture Research Institute and force the people, talked about the hardships of the Dongba Culture Research and facing many difficulties to understand the Dongba Culture Research fruitful results and bright prospects.

Become part of economic life based culture can exist

"China Social Science News": Dongba culture as the "living fossil of human language," how do you view the value of Dongba culture?

And force the people: in the long human history, the text has disappeared or the early replacement. Dongba is the world's only there and still used into the system of hieroglyphics, a relatively independent and coherent expression, there may be a classic narrative. Maya text, the text is Egyptian hieroglyphs, but were unable to identify. The tradition has the Dongba characters can achieve more than 30,000 volumes of Dongba classic save the living state, and will not become dead text. Dongba characters also has the aesthetic function of art, including many ancient people respect for nature, the idea of ​​protecting the environment.

"China Social Science News": you are both scholars, is Dongba. By the urbanization and the face of Dongba culture, modern serious impact on the situation, you think, how to achieve the Dongba culture heritage?

And Limin: Dongba cultural heritage is very ambitious undertaking, and I hope in their lifetime, be able to do this business. Dongba culture, heritage and community economic development should be combined. Cultural and economic life only to become part of the time, there is only a solid foundation. Dongba cultural heritage in the work, I focus on the use of Dongba culture to the natural ecological and cultural resources surveys, and find points of integration, the pursuit of cultural heritage of the carrier.

"China Social Science News": You mentioned the cultural heritage of Dongba religion is the key. Why?

And force the people: the history of the Naxi Dongba culture is conscious of people's faith needs of the natural heritage. Now the traditional Dongba cultural heritage is facing two major difficulties: the urbanization impact on the Naxi Dongba religion crisis of faith.

Dongba cultural heritage can be divided into full heritage - this is the best; out of context of the local heritage; by the heritage of the name in exchange for money - this undesirable situation is quite serious.

Transmission of traditional Dongba religion and culture is a three-dimensional comprehensive renewal of cultural heritage. Dongba to know the basics of ritual, will recite Dongba scriptures, will jump Dongba dance, will paint, write Dongba characters, but also do arts and crafts, statues, etc., in a systematic and complete the ritual, the a Dongba ceremony can be completed.

Classic interpretation of the text will not be lost or facing difficulties

"China Social Science News": to promote the Dongba cultural heritage is your current main job. You teach the disciples when the Dongba culture they will focus on what capacity?

And force the people: cultural heritage not only knowledge transfer, but also the spread of social activities. Dongba cultural heritage is a systematic project. The current urbanization rate is too fast, the Lijiang basin is basically just a few years into the urbanization. Naxi Dongba language is mainly used to read, like to use Hanyu Pinyin to Chinese characters read the same. Naxi language in the city of slowly being marginalized, in such circumstances Dongba cultural heritage can be described as difficult.

Dongba culture as long as willing to learn, willing to do Dongba, I will teach. In general, the Dongba Naxi people are. Dongba we must have the ability to acquire knowledge, but also a dissemination of knowledge, organizational ability to interact. I encourage students to constantly create a new situation Dongba cultural heritage. I Dongba cultural heritage is very sensitive to these matters.

"China Social Science News": Dongba is caused by a reduced number of Dongba characters are endangered heritage one of the factors?

And force the people: in 2009, my teacher passed away years of Arab learning, so I think an era has passed. From 1949 to engage in or participate in Dongba ritual, now living are numbered, this is another dilemma Dongba cultural heritage. Dongba culture and heritage in research, has been valued the Dongba characters. Currently, the Dongba language heritage, there were two issues, namely the collection of text, the second is a classic application. Interpretation of a classic if you can not only identify individual words, not a full sense of the tradition.

From the current direction of view, the Dongba language is not lost, but preserved by the Interpretation of the book may be lost, and difficult for someone to be able to more than 30,000 volumes of Dongba The Interpretation of all, I can not.

In fact, the Dongba dance, painting Dongba religion, Dongba songs are to be restored. At the same time with the text application, show classic Interpretation and full capacity of Dongba rituals, is the complete Elite Dongba.

Consider the full range can be achieved Dongba cultural heritage

"China Social Science News": I know that some places in the Lijiang Dongba opened a training school, and in some primary schools also have special Dongba courses. These measures should Dongba cultural heritage, the current effects?

And force the people: these courses through the Dongba culture to grow up, whether self-employment or further studies, there are feelings of Dongba culture. They can be self-folk tradition, to some extent restored the civil Dongba ceremony, so people began to re-understanding of Dongba culture. This is a positive side.

In primary and secondary schools in the Dongba cultural heritage, but language, text, music, dance, painting on education, there is no can not have faith in the content. Dongba cultural studies and the quality of national education, arts education combined with good results, social impact is also large. Now Dongba cultural heritage in schools has been a general consensus, you can see hope.

"China Social Science News": for the Dongba culture, heritage, what your future vision?

And force the people: starting in 2010, Yulong Naxi Autonomous County in my new home village Ludian Township organized a Dongba cultural heritage school, we intend to declare the village as a national ecological protection of national cultural village. So far, Lijiang has been developed around the tourism to the extreme, but there is room for rural tourism, rural Ludian the best conditions for this area, the natural environment and human resource-rich, convenient transportation.

For transmission to take into account social, economic, cultural and other factors. Over the years I participated in many tourist attractions in the construction of Dongba culture, jade is the company's culture and cultural tourism kiosk consultant. The current research involves the Jinsha River rock art research, Dongba religion of Dongba Culture and Dongba cultural heritage research. I also participated in development of tourist attractions of Dongba culture, the school's Dongba culture training, civil Dongba cultural heritage, Dongba culture studies. Only in this comprehensive survey, in order for a whole different regions, different people, different ways to effectively pass the Dongba culture.

The reporter Tang Hongli text /

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