| Traditional society in Guangxi, drums as ritual vessels, musical instruments and symbols of power weighing equipment has played a very important role. But with social changes, the sacred dignity of the drums has become the heritage of traditional society and the drums fade in the minority of real life. However, as a cultural symbol of the Drums-Drum sculptures, gifts drums, drums and other accessories been produced in large numbers, widely used in urban public art, the city landmark, large-scale festival events to drums derived from the prototype of modern Bronze culture has become a symbol of Guangxi regional culture, ancient culture glows new vitality.Previous studies on the drums is to focus attention upon the traditional drums, drums of origin, ethnicity, type, age, plastic arts, music performance, smelting process, alloy composition, metal materials and other aspects, involving archaeological, national history, history of science, art history and other disciplines, and for widely used modern life symbolic drums not had too many concerns. This study focused on the Drum construction, Bronze sculpture, jewelry and other symbolic Bronze Drum, the use of anthropological field research methods, the region of Guangxi, Nanning, Guilin, Baise, Hechi symbols of the four urban areas of the different forms of Drums and the use of a detailed field test. Through to the signifying bronze drum's inspection and the analysis, the author thought that the signifying bronze drum's appearance is one kind of national culture regeneration actually, this kind of regeneration is containing in modern society's people to the national region culture approval demand. When the drums as a symbol of cultural resources, with modern culture, mode of transmission, modern economic production, and consumption of cultural products people when combined, as a cultural capital, symbolic drums in the production of real economic value, but also non-material cultural heritage protection made a unique contribution. Symbolic drums and then by the cultural heritage to cultural resources into cultural capital, to achieve the regeneration of traditional culture, this regeneration is the modern civilization and the requirements of sustainable development is a re-interpretation of culture. Drums as a cultural symbol is a sign of cultural regeneration and a sign of cultural identity. |
