Study Dongzudage From Visual Anthropology Perspective

Dongzutage occupies an important position in the Dong 25,000-year history of reproduction. Dong did not create your own text, Dongzutage word of mouth carries the historical memory of the Dong’s people, at the same time because it occupies a special place in the Dong people’s lives and make it become an important part in Dong history. Meanwhile, the Dongzutage contain rich cultural connotations, it is the soul of the Dong culture. In recent years, governments at all levels Dongzutage large-scale film and television development, Dongzutage embarked on a path of market-oriented operation. Dongzutage for basic elements and to the market after the packaging of the stage works of art by a large number of film and television media widely and won the attention of all sectors of society. Dong internal the Dongzutaige exhibitions to have become the main window of the external display of the Dong ethnic culture, through the comb and its artistes text analysis I understand that the mass media intervention for Dongzutage cultural exposure reached a certain level, but these so-called big song and dance combination and ethnomusicology video works but from the natural qualities of non-governmental it and its original trajectory, and begin to degenerate into a dressed in bright shell lack of culture of pseudo-folk performances role and to attract tourists to the role of tourism resources.A variety of symbols and cultural relations of images can also show in the same field domain, which is the important features of the image of this medium.It is this characteristic makes the save and save the culture will soon disappear to become one of the value of the visual anthropology,and from a variety of imageanthropological information which includes data mining, has also become the important task of the anthropologist. Therefore, in order to more clearly understand the Dongzutaige present a true survival situation, and as if it contains anthropological information, I came to the representative Dongzutaige popular one region-Guizhou Province, Jiang County Huangcun site investigation and shooting. Fieldwork film images, deep description of the relevant knowledge based on visual anthropology of Dongzutaige related cultural symbols, thus Dongzutage is not just a simple musical art behavior, it is firmly rooted in the Dong’s unique cultural ecology which is the marriage system, an important part of Dong social structure, cultural heritage and collective interaction. But we can see from the field survey of income:in Dong internal to the homosexual collective companion and heterosexual collective interaction is an important foundation for the song singing traditional slowly occurred Evolution. Heritage of Dongzutage is facing risk of disintegration. The big song tradition rooted Dong culture is the impact of foreign culture is facing an unprecedented major transformation. Dongzutage in this age of mass media, gradually losing the folk culture of its cultural soil. Helpless situation it is necessary to modern civilization and prosperity, but also to save their spiritual blood, caught in a deadly threat.