On The Ecological And Cultural Connotation And Theoretical Meaning Of Yunnan Reflections' Original Ecology

Yunnan Reflections has brought a tidal wave of the original ecological culture. The discussion of the original ecology, however, cannot be confined to its superficial meaning. Strictly speaking, the original ecology refers not only to the object, but also to our attitudes toward it. Whether it refers to either the aboriginality or essentiality, either folk or national proterozoic culture, or to the resources which haven't been discovered and exploited by the modern civilization or civilized society, the original ecology eventually lies on our vision of and attitude toward the culture.The original ecology is a relative concept. Its emergence fully reflects people's alertness to decline of the traditional culture. They hope to attach importance to the traditional culture, identify with it and express their cultural consciousness about inheriting and creating the"mother culture".This original ecological culture heat is based on a cultural consciousness. It pursues the original ecological consciousness and spirit. All sorts of social forces including government, folk communities, media, scholars and audience, all do their best to make contribution to this tideway. That reflects that people, under the free and open social and cultural environment, respect nature and their own culture. They try to restore modern people's national memory which has been shielded by urban culture and the mass culture. It calls for attention from the mass and society upon the preservation of the national and folk culture. It means a return to hometown, and to nature, which, the author argues that, is the deeper cultural meaning of Yunnan Reflections.The drama of Yunnan Relfections includes the motif of the universal nature, humanistic complex as well as tracing of life origin. It also reflects the experience of living and expectation of a permanent life. The original intention of producing this drama is a wholehearted love and protection for this heritage. Taking originality, typicality and experimentation as its principles, the drama attempts to"build a mobile folk singing and dancing art museum on the stage."Yang Liping's artistic practice is to discover Yunnan's original ecological folk dancing, further explore it, and to make self-conscious stage performance. That shows she has made a remarkable contribution to rejuvenation of China's folk dancing in a multi-cultural age. At the same time, she has opened a new vision for us to understand the tropism of modern dancing, and to deal with the relationship between artistic creation and derivation. Furthermore, it has provided a platform for us to probe into the modern development of national culture from the perspective of theory.In Yunnan Reflections, most of the singing and dancing scenes come from folk rituals. Folk rituals such as worship, farming, and festival celebration run through the drama. These rituals cover contents of the nation's historical and cultural memory. Ritual often has important functions as awakening, recalling, educating and inheriting national memory. This kind of national memory is human being's instinct and experience accumulated at the bottom of man's heart. It is a universal instinct and experience. Its existence includes the biological heredity as well as civilization sediment in history. Therefore, the singing and dancing in Yunnan Reflections have a rich cultural connotation and profound symbol touch. It also deposits the abstruse and remote memory of a nation.Taking Pierre Bourdieu's theory of culture capital and culture reproduction, we discover that the drama successfully excavates the original ecology culture and reflects the developing trajectory of the national culture——a path of culture re-creation and national culture transfer, namely capitalization of national culture. Yunnan Reflection is a reproduction of the original ecological culture, that is, the national culture's consciousness inside itself which takes place under a harmonious environment of the political, economic and cultural. Meanwhile, through its success in the commercial market, the national culture resources can be successfully transformed into national culture capital. Consequently, Yunnan Reflections could achieve a double wins in both social and economical profit.