An Anthropological Study Of Dongba Religious Art

Naxi nationality is a unique ethnic group in China’s many ethnic minorities, once had the great migration of engraved on the memory.Long had an epic journey, in different times, suffered from other families, every aspect of political and cultural impact, hard sensitized vicissitudes, makes this the subject consciousness of the race itself not only by melting, but rise, more can understand the survival, the significance of life.Dongba culture is the main part of the naxi people spiritual civilization, the naxi ancestors thousands of years of religious experience and comprehension of life.The indifferent attitude towards life and beyond time and space, prudent lofty realm of god, for the human culture provides a secular and religious harmony, a unique mode. Serves the dongba folk art of teaching activities, is the naxi ancestors in the long social production and life of the original thinking.Is the dongba collective creation, generation after generation in order to express the cultural image of the language and religious feelings and aesthetic ideal of civilization. A lot of of primitive simplicity is clever, colorful paint, CARDS, scroll painting’re present in a variety of dongba ceremony, accompanied the dongba spilled out, heavy flood desolate chanting, or sorrow, or passionate dongba music, rich fantasy dongba dance, will make people feel comfort and artistic aesthetic feeling.Dongba art has created a brilliant art history, is a true reflection of national history and culture of naxi life.Primitive art has a very high aesthetic value, its strong culture, the spirit of romance idiosyncratic, vivid artistic language, forthright and plain style and uniqueness, provide the template for the contemporary art, make contemporary dongba painting life never failure.