Nature, Divinity And Beauty

In the big family of Chinese nationality,Naxi people is one nationality that has the unique culture individuality,and the Naxi people mainly live together in Sichuan, Yunnan and Tibet province contiguous zone.Because of its special environment,the national migration experience and primitive religion's influences,the Naxi nationality has formed its special individuality culture.Firstly,inherited the custom from his ancestor that offer sacrifice to heaven,the funeral etiquette,the white stone worship, the monkey totemism,goat and tiger and others Divine nature animal worship,and the idea of advocating white,resenting black,advocating bravely and the military force and so on.These cultural factors have molded the Naxi nationality's unique cognitive style to the world,the aesthetic standard,the moral outlook,and have also molded its unique nationality individuality and national makings.Secondly,besides the ancient Qiang culture origin,the Naxi nationality has also inherited its own nationality's another traditional witch culture.Namely one kind is similar Shamanism culture called in the Western academic circle,this also plays a vital role on formation of the Naxi nationality culture particularly Dongba religion culture.Thirdly,the Tibetan national minority Ben religion culture,the Tibetan Buddhism culture as well as the Chinese Buddhism culture,the Confucianist culture and Taoism culture,also have had the vital role to the Naxi nationality Dongba culture's formation.In the historical advancement,the above cultures have had the influence on the Naxi nationality culture in a way or another,and enabled the Naxi nationality culture to 'inherite' or absorb each cultural factor.Thus Naxi people has formed the most special Dongba culture,also has molded the Naxi nationality unique nationality individuality and the national spirit.At the same time,the Naxi nationality's unique culture which has bred Naxi nationality's individuality and spirit,also has bred its special understanding world way,the aesthetic idea,the moral outlook,has molded its unique aesthetic spirit.Based on the world culture's multiplicity and the richness,the article attempts to research Naxi nationality's unique aesthetic spirit,from esthetics,the anthropology, the esthetic anthropology,the cultural anthropology angle of view.And then try to discover Naxi nationality how to carry on production defer to the aesthetic rule in the civilized advancement,to search Naxi nationality's esthetic psychology,esthetic consciousness,esthetic idea,how to develop the relatively independent condition from the dim and fuzzy condition,and to reveal Naxi nationality's esthetic spirit how to move towards clear condition from chaos condition.In the article,writer takes the Naxi nationality history as a background,takes the Naxi nationality and its ancestor's religious activities,the folk custom activity,the artistic activity,the language and writing as the main source material,takes Naxi nationality Dongba religion as the key point,and takes geography condition,national migration history and the psychological condition which decided Naxi nationality's esthetic spirit and Naxi nationality esthetic mental connotations,performance shape,artistic shape as cores. And the author attempts to break through the traditional esthetics limits.Finally, expounded another esthetic spirit-- Naxi nationality esthetic spirit that is different from traditional esthetic spirit.Looking from the article logical organization and the primary coverage,first,writer has outlined Naxi nationality history,language,writing,religion,art and other characteristic cultures,and initially searches the Naxi nationality characteristic culture the type,the evolution and the unique cultural psychology,from the national origin and the cultural exchange collision.Next,through the research about the physical geography condition,national migration history and religion,elaborates how they do affect on the Naxi nationality esthetic consciousness,esthetic idea,esthetic psychology and esthetic emotion.Third,through revealing the myriad things that have mystical powers view,totemism consciousness,mystical and witching consciousness, taking its own nationality as the center consciousness,honoring life and enjoying life consciousness implied in the aesthetic spirit,comprehensively presents the Naxi nationality esthetic spirit connotation.Fourth,based on presenting Naxi nationality's aesthetic spirit connotation,thoroughly analyzes mystical esthetic shape,fierce esthetic shape,clumsy and immature esthetic shape and open-minded esthetic shape. Fifth,on the basis of relative clarification of esthetic spirit connotation and its shape, mainly from the angle of Dongba myth,and Dongba dance,further analyzes the way that each kind of esthetic spirit factor which had been presented in art activities. Finally,from the angle of culture diverse characteristic,the protection of non-material culture inheritance,cultural anthropology and aesthetics,elaborates the contemporary significance of research about Naxi nationality esthetic spirit.This article takes the Naxi nationality Dongba religion,folk custom,myth,story fable,drawing,dance and writing as basic material,tries hard to overcome the effect of the traditional esthetics.The thesis has absorbed anthropology's merits that are opening and liberal,and absorbed anthropology's advantages of correcting the mistake view that thought some race or culture is advance but others are low-grade. Moreover,the thesis has absorbed anthropology method of emphasizing on reality and concretion and also absorbed aesthetics method of emphasizing on abstract and subjectivity.Using these ways,the author have studied Naxi nationality's esthetic spirit and its presentation forms.This thesis has elementarily overcomed the influence of the cultural center principle thought.In addition,because this research used cultural material containing Naxi nationality's primitive religion belief,the folk custom, national art,language and writing,thought custom,the ideal of life production life style and so on,it makes this research have much significance that enriches and substantiates the substantial cultural anthropology and the sociology's content and theory,and it can enrich Chinese esthetic culture and protect the non-material cultural heritage.