Cultural Permeation And Aesthetic Reflection

The rich mine of Zhuang folk literature—Zhuang folk long poetry—is one essential part of Zhuang culture. As a special cultural form, Zhuang folk long poetry is influenced by culture and contains rich cultural information. Based on the previous studies, this paper explores the cultural perspective research on Zhuang folk long poetry with placing it in the history of national development and the netty structure of social culture applying theories and methods of art culturoloqy and literature-culture criticism, which is beneficial to comprehensive view on complicated relations between Zhuang folk long poetry and other cultural factors, as well as historical association with the evolution of Zhuang culture, so as to deepen the understanding of Zhuang folk long poetry. This thesis is mainly presented from synchronic analysis and diachronic interpretation.Ⅰ.The synchronic analysis on cultural perspective of Zhuang folk long poetry—to investegate the complex lingkages between Zhuang folk long poetry and various cultural factors in the cultural field.On the one hand, Zhuang folk long poetry is surrounded by various cultural factors, which profoundly influence Zhuang folk long poetry in a variety of ways. As the economic foundation of Zhuang folk long poetry, Zhuang rice producting culture provides Zhuang folk long poetry with a lot of creative materials. Zhuang singing culture, which generates a large amount of folksongs with plentiful content and various forms, cultivates multitudinous singers, master singers and champion singers, and also forms numerous song fairs and song parties, creates "spiritual climate" for Zhuang folk long poetry. Apart from as Zhuang folk belief permeating in Zhuang folk long poetry, the secular development of Zhuang sorcery culture that sing and create folk long poems also promotes the composition of Zhuang folk long poetry. The other parts of Zhuang culture, such as inhabiting culture, civil customs, morals and ethics, historical cognition, other forms of folk literature etc also put a certain impact on the creation of Zhuang folk long poetry. In addition to a number of ideas and concepts infiltrating into Zhuang folk long poetry, the spread of a large number of Han literature to Zhuang region inputes fresh blood for the composition of Zhuang folk long poetry. All of these cultural factors constitutes a rich cultural field and nourishes the Zhuang folk long poetry.On the other hand, Zhuang folk long poetry also makes a dynamic view on these cultural factors, and integrates rich cultural information in the aesthetic creation. The origins of Zhuang rice farming , rice producing technology, knowledge and customs, Zhuang inhabiting culture, folk customs, morals and ethics, historical cognition, etc, all above have been remembered and preserved in an aesthetic way by Zhuang folk long poetry. As an important component of Zhuang singing culture, Zhuang folk long poetry enriched singing culture, and its flourish is a mark of the prosperity of Zhuang singing culture. Zhuang folk long poetry also plays an important role in the secular development of Zhuang sorcery culture. Furthermore, the absorption and reference of Chinese culture are processed and reformed on the fertile soil of Zhuang culture but not copy, which makes the works involve the contemplation of national life and the characteristic of ethnic culture. In short, Zhuang folk long poetry reflects actively on these cultural factors in the aesthetic creation.Ⅱ.The diachronic interpretation on cultural perspective of Zhuang folk long poetry—to investegate the historical association between Zhuang folk long poetry and cultural evolution in the process of Zhuang culture.On the one hand, the historical process of the Zhuang culture put an important impact on the development of Zhuang folk long poetry. Before Qin Shihuang unified Lingnan, Zhuang culture had developed autonomously and created free for a long historical period, during which the Zhuang pioneers survived in the bad natural environment: obtaining material resources through physical labor in order to sustain themselves, highly with creative spirit being; explaining everything by mental creation to fulfill spirit comfort and adjustment, with rich imagination being. These creative activities bearing wisdom and the achievements would undoubtedly be the root of Zhuang culture and the pristine cultural background of Zhuang folk long poetry. Since Qin Shihuang conquered Lingnan, Zhuang nationality had entered a period of development that under the tension from national self-discipline and central dynasty's rule, which lasted more than 2000 years. In the course of interacting with Han culture, the increasingly complex social life provides the creation of Zhuang folk long poetry with a growing wealthy materials; the generation and development of Acient Zhuang characters greatly promote the development of Zhuang folk long poetry; the wide spread of Han culture especially a large number of Han literature in Zhuang region constantly inputs fresh blood into the creation of Zhuang folk long poetry, which is undoubtedly becoming the important cultural background of the development and prosperity of Zhuang folk long poetry. When the foreign aggressors invaded, a common challenge—the survival of Han and Zhuang culture—pushed Zhuang people join the struggles against the aggressors without hesitation together with Han and other nationalities to defend national security presenting deep national interest and the recognition of China. This historical state of Zhuang culture also put a certain impact on the composition of Zhuang folk long poetry.On the other hand, Zhuang folk long poetry also offers a view on the historical process of Zhuang culture, during which the integrity image is reflected in the aesthetic creation. Zhuang folk long poetry closely related to the destiny of group and the soul of individual is certainly approaching to the fate and soul of Zhuang nationality. As an outcome of historical culture accumulation, it transfers Zhuang'racial memory, identifies the specific features of the nation, records the heavy but solid culture accumulation created by this ancient mountain-civilized nation and the rugged history hardships they experienced. In short, Zhuang folk long poetry is the liveliest and most profound reveals of the inherent nature of Zhuang culture's development.To sum up, culture nurtures Zhuang folk long poetry; meannwhile, Zhuang folk long poetry communicates with the overall culture in aesthetic creation, records abundant cultural factors, and reflects the inherent nature of the historical process of Zhuang culture. Cultural permeation and aesthetic reflection, like two sides of a coin, coexistent in the relation between Zhuang folk long poetry and culture.