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Si Mgang Lih:the Ecological Harmonious Aesthetic Ideal Of Wa People

Posted on:2015-08-02Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:X L ZhaoFull Text:PDF
GTID:1225330467488763Subject:Chinese ethnic minority art
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"si mgang lih" is a kind of myths and epic that popular in ethnic Wa of China and Myanmar.This artic sets up "si mgang lih" as the core object and based on the field and text, guided by the theory of ecological and harmony to clarify the roots and spectrum of "si mgang lih" art, and digging its human survival desires and aesthetic ideals.According to the explanation of local knowledge,"si mgang lih" means "all things or people came from caves and calabash","si mgang" means "caves"or "calabash","lih" means " coming out ".Throughout paronym researches,"si mgang lih" should also include the meanings of home, ancestors, ancestral home, totem, homeland,etc.Due to complicated reasons of troglodytism and the reproduction worship, the meaning of "totem" has been gradually blurred, and "ancestral home" has been gradually extended to be caves and calabash under the mechanism of religious belief and the context of myths and legends. Then it also got the metaphor of homeland and the earth, and with the symbolic significance of dual home.The logic relationships between the semantics of all levels of "si mgang lih" are roughly corresponding to the artistic rule of "si mgang lih",which is the living style goes to the artistic to the religious.The artistic process is also the whole-living process,.That is the myths and legends of "si mgang lih" reorganized the original survival philosophy, religions ideas and art ideas, etc.The myths and legends "si mgang lih" was born of the specific natural living condition and cultural living condition.The cultural living condition includes the slides of languages,religions and inheritors, etc.Under the fractal mechanism, the "si mgang lih""derived or formed different text forms,which can be roughly divided into the original text, and re-ecological text, derivation text, the bionics text according to the ecological spectrum.The text ecology is the important transmission system of core traditional aesthetic values and ideals of ethnic Wa.The verbal art "si mgang lih" contains the survival aesthetic ideal of ecological harmony of the ancestors of ethnic Wa about the origins of the universe, homologous, consanguinity of all nationalities, unity of heaven and man, and it just formed the beauty of syngenetic-living,the beauty of depending-living,the beauty of competing-living and the beauty of coexisting-living and other aesthetic paradigmatic forms. The two typical incompatible forms of flood and beast mating contains deep harmony essence,reflecting the beauty of whole-living of original form with special form of regeneration.National movement characterized the history road of the ancestors of ethnic Wa pursuit ecological harmonious ideal,this has run through the whole progress of myths and legends creators searching for the beautiful homeland.The core aesthetic values and ideals of ecological harmonious of "si mgang lih" have been inherited in the derivation text and the bionics text. Some bionic texts have gradually built a neutralization value system of truth,kind,beauty, benefit and suitable, and it has certain significance of contemporary whole-living. Based on promoting the quality of "si mgang lih",they returned the meaning of "totem" and "homeland" helically.In the context of contemporary globalization, the national art should stick to the core aesthetic value and ideal that accorded with the ecological rules and aims, and constantly improve and optimize them.Looking for a sustainable virtuous cycle and whole-living a neutralization value system to built ecological harmonious homeland,and guide the practice of the aesthetic life practically.
Keywords/Search Tags:Wa ethnic group, Si Mgang Lih, Ecological harmony, Aesthetic ideals, Homeland
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