The Aesthetic Value Of Black-clothes Zhuang's Culture In Modern View

The study of Black-clothes Zhuang's culture is a new view brought by aesthetic anthropology that is a new subject. Aesthetic anthropology has a foothold to study the native culture, especially the national minority culture, and stresses to study how to exhibit national minority culture and how to carry the culture communion out in a popular culture context. At the same time, because modernization and globalization have become a avoidless realistic fortune, it is impossible for each individual in contemporary society to think of the meaning of subsistence outside modernization and globalization, and the existence of one culture has to show a realistic and characteristic meaning when this culture is confronted with the problem from modernization and globalization. So the study of Black-clothes Zhuang's culture always belongs to the category of modernization. As for the aesthetic value of Black-clothes Zhuang's culture, it mostly emerges in the aesthetic activities of Black-clothes Zhuang's culture. We have to make a analysis deeply about them in order to cognize the aesthetic value.The case of"the clansmen of Black-clothes Zhuang's take part in the Nanning International Folk Song Arts Festival in 2004"brings the problem that I concern. The Nanning International Folk Song Arts Festival is the modernization context where the aesthetic value of Black-clothes Zhuang's culture emerges. But the clansmen of Black-clothes Zhuang get into a terrible circumstance. The primary reason is the absence of modern education in Black-clothes Zhuang's culture leads the subjectivities of the culture to be silenced in the communion between they and modern society. Therefore, it is necessary to answer two questions for the clansmen of Black-clothes Zhuang through they take part in the Nanning International Folk Song Arts Festival in 2004: what is the aesthetic fascination of Black-clothes Zhuang's culture? And what is the factor that makes the clansmen of Black-clothes Zhuang get into the modernization context?While answering these two questions, first, we have to make a analysis deeply about the aesthetic meaning of Black-clothes Zhuang's culture. The view in this text is that the aesthetic meaning of Black-clothes Zhuang's culture belongs to a aesthetic in antiquity, and embodies in three aspects: 1,Performance in the rites. Arts exist in the rites, and the existence of arts obeys to the function of rites, that is, the important position of the belief of ancestor in clansman's heart is strengthened. And the aesthetic meaning contained in performance (arts) is endowed with a profound and inherent fascination in that it holds the powerful expression of rites. 2,The factor of"beauty"in the dress forms. Because the view of"recognizing black as being most beautiful"in Black-clothes Zhuang's dress culture has become a symbol of the consciousness of memorizing their...