The Interflow Between Oriental And Occidental Civilization In A Little Traditional Occasion

This paper first is concerned at the global village phenomenon of Yangshuo West Street and reflects on the present research achievement. With those academic texts' help and through the writer' s field work,the paper makes a new thorough inquiry on the significance of this cultural phenomenon. And it would help to delineate the complex nature of globalisation which now affects Chinese society more and more widely. Besides,through strict and careful field work,the writer has seen that Yangshuo West Street,as a model of Li River regional culture,has not only distinctive traditional culture but also a vigorous continuation in the trend of times. All of these are valued in anthropological study. If we can catch its inter aesthetic connotation,then it will be helpful for us to grasp better the cultural implication of Li River valley civilization and draw a blueprint for its development in the future. This paper is such an attempt on that.The paper starts with a brief introduction to Robert Red field's definition of great tradition and little tradition. In Part One,a short statement is made on the cultural implication of the West Street in Yangshuo as a particular aesthetic occasion,Also an introduction is done into the concern and argument caused by the West-Street phenomenon and into the imperfection remaining in the previous researches made by other researchers. Meanwhile,the writer briefs on the course of the investigation and methods implied in it.In Part Two,the writer traces the history of the West street in its origin,development and the formation of its in reputation tourism. The writer also demonstrates that the development of the West-Street embodies not only the rule of things development in Chinese traditional culture that when all means are exhausted,changes become necessary,once changed,a solution emerges,but also the bending of oriental culture and occidental culture. So the development,in the term of culture,has become a unique symbol of globalization. In Part Three,the writer makes a research into such a distinctive cultural image as the international marriage by setting it in the little traditional occasion of Yangshuo so as to analyze further the connection between the interaction of oriental-occidental cultures and the inheritance and innovation of traditional culture. The harmony of different culture in Yangshuo West Street forms a sharp contrast to the scene of terrible cultural conflict spread all over the world. So the global village' s developing would promote the normalization of relations between different cultures.In Part Four,the writer analyses thoroughly the cultural values of the West Street in terms of the harmony of human and the nature,harmony of different people,harmony of tourist himself,analyse how Yangshuo West Street developed to a complex cultural occasion which make the touristssprout marvellous feeling of harmony and sympathetic response. The writer also suggests some scientific conceptions for the future development of the West-Street.Part Five gives emphasis to the adaptation and development of a little traditional culture,the coexistence and intergrowth of oriental culture and occidental culture,and the direction of aesthetic study. Yangshuo wouldn' t become a famous scenic spot without its rich and varied traditional culture. And such regional culture is still kept alive and flourishing in the trend of times. The most important reason is that itself is good at absorb the advanced element of other different culture. And what aesthetic anthropologists should do is to supply the theoretical directions for its cultural transform. Beside that,we should devote ourselves to construct the auspicious cultural environment for the intergrowth of different culture.In Part Six,the writer synthesizes the cultural inspiration given by the development of West -Street in Yangshuo and,at the same time,gains an improvement in theory. The writer therefore believes that this paper is Lo develop further the interpret on the aesthetic implication of the West Street. And als...