Gesar Epic Image And Its Culture

Epic is the book recording the memory of Nationality , manifesting the spirit of the Nationality, recording the its history and culture, embodying its esthetic judgment. Pictures are the comprehensive carrier of culture, spirit and function of Epic, as well as the external form of the rich connotation of Epic, it' s very important to the research work of Epic. This article will interpret the contents of Epic and the culture connotation of the function of Epic from a new point view of of the Epic - pictures, making initial research of the development of the Epic - pictures.Besides the preview, this article is divided into 4 chapters.The fiist chapter, [the information of Epic - pictures].The current situation of the information work of Epic - pictures: on the one hand, some of the information survived through the hard work of several generations, but because of the delayed research work, these information haven' t been documented systematically. It' s scattered inside or outside China, facing the danger of disappearing for the second time, on the other hand, with the change of culture biological environment of Epic inheriting, lots of culture phenomena of Epic are unavoidably disappearing, the picture is one of the examples. It' s not easy to discover the use of picture when singing the Epic, even the picture itself became the precious culture relic. Under this circumstance, the writer tried to document the picture information of Epic in a systematic way through the field investigation, information collecting, and added some new information.Since the article is based on above mentioned information, and its importance for continued research in the future, one special chapter specialized in introducing and analyzing these information.The second chapter, [the content research and compareration of Epic - pictures].The writer divided the Epic - pictures into two: the descriptive ones and the painting ones. Descriptive ones are sub - divided into biographic pictures of King Cesar and those of the story plots. By two sections, each section into 2 or 3 small parts, the writer will interpret selectively the contents of different kinds of the pictures, compare with the contents of the Epic, and make inquiry into the questions arising from interpreting.The third chapter, [the use of the Epic - pictures and its culture connotation].According to its function in Epic singing and speaking, the use of picture is defined as for the ritual before singing and for the singing itself (sing and speak looking at the pictures). approached the different ways of use, the history and the culture background, getting the conclusion that two ways of use represent different cultural traditions.The last chapter, [approaching the origin of the Epic - pictures]Making inquiry of the folk - custom and realistic characteristics of Epic - pictures. trying to make textual research of the origin and circulating of 13 animal - bodied warriors, King Ceasar characterization, Tibetan warriors, King Duowen warriors.