Yunnan Bai Tie-dye Art Research

Bai nationality is an advanced nationality, and in the long course of history development she extensively absorbed other peoples' advanced culture, and finally she formed her own originally distinctive Bai culture and folk handicraft. In this course, formed the Bai tie-dyeing with its pattern art is a model of China national tie-dyeing. Bai tie-dyeing mixed Bai humane flavor, natural landscape religious belief and artistic style, and formed originally distinctive handiwork. In many ways, it reflects Bai nationality's art, life sentiments, aesthetic features etc. It is an important component of Bai nationality economic and cultural.Today, Bai nationality tye-dyeing products are not only the indispensable necessities in the life of every Nationality in Dali region (especially the Bai Nationality and the Yi nationality), but also loved by the masses throughout the country. Being a traditional folk export products in Dali, Bai nationality tie-dyeing are not only sold throughout the whole country, but also to the Southeast Asia, Europe and the United States. Many foreign tourists, who come to Dali, must purchase several kinds Bai nationality tye-dyeing products gift and send them to their friends and relatives. This made Bai nationality tie-dyeing famous and spreading far.With the rise of tye-dyeing crafts in every district, the Bai nationality tie-dyeing is facing an unprecedented challenge. Currently, less work are put into the study of system and integrity of Bai nationality tie-dyeing , which is great pity to the development of Bai nationality tie-dyeing, thus made it relatively passive in the aspect of exploitation, innovation, enriching and marketing .Under such circumstances, the systematic study of the Bai nationality tie-dyeing is necessary.Pattern art is a cultural phenomenon, which contains such meanings as ethnic communities of sources, propagating, growth, religion, aesthetic etc. It links up the symbols with the correlative national cultural, carrying a thick and heavy history. Historically, Bai nationality cultural was constantly impacted by the Han culture. While absorbing and learning from the Chinese aesthetic thinking, the Bai nationality constantly enriches theoriginal aesthetic concepts and the pattern grains of Bai nationality tie-dyeing are important examples for us to inquire form beauty.The paper is written on the base of collecting such first-hand information as Bai tie-dyeing history, design, crafts, status, existent problems etc. On the base of collecting, settling and analyzing this informsttion, it probes into the heritage and development of the Bai nationality. The main emphasis is focused on analyzing the plastic arts technique of Bai nationality tye-dyeing pattern grain, pattern color characteristic, production processes and techniques of Bai nationality dye etc.It compares the Bai nationality tie-dyeing with wax printing and blue printed cloth in the aspect of process and the aesthetic characteristics and on the base of conducting a multifaceted analysis on the Bai nationality tie-dyeing, it conducts detailed analysis on the existent problem and probes into the aspect that needs attention and improvement in the development of Bai nationality tie-dyeing. It strives to advance the development the Bai nationality tie-dyeing in the future through discuss and analysis on relative questions.