The Ethnology Dong Boasting Perspective

The ethnic Dong is one of the oldest ethnic minorities in south China. Today, no matter culture changes quickly, the "pile and fence" building, the Drum - tower, the Wind - Rain bridge, the pavilion, the granary, the water well, the village gate, the drama stage that can form a whole architectural complex are still underlining ethnic Dong characteristics. The Wind - Rain bridge is a kind construction of wood and stone structure, which contain three bodies of the bridge ,the porch and the pavilion. The bridges are often constructed nearby the edge of Dong village or above the stronghold river. The Wind - Rain bridge is known as the Dong architectural art "three treasures", its beautiful appearance and lofty construction techniques are described.The Wind - Rain bridge is not an isolated culture phenomenon. It has close relationship with nationality's habitat and the cultural atmosphere. As the transformation symbolic mark, the Wind - Rain bridge is hiding the rich significance. The Wind - Rain bridge are mainly studied from folklore, architecture, aesthetics, literature perspective. And the static kind of a rough outline of the sort that make it difficult to read more from the things that immediately come to bridge understanding. Its cultural connotation depth excavation is ignored. Under the ethnology field of vision, to show The Wind - Rain bridge around the cultural information and analyzed the significance of the dynamic, multi-culturalheritage, then to explore the root causes of why it has so is this article starting point.This article Based on the Chengyang Bridge as writing paper targets, which situated in Sanjiang Dong Autonomous County of Guangxi province. The Chengyang Bridge not only is the Sanjiang Dong Wind -Rain bridges representative, also is the signature building of the entire Dong area. It has been reported and described in many newspapers and magazines. Along with the rise of tourism, the Chengyang Bridge is improving visibility. It becomes a prolocutor to show their local community culture, also is a major propaganda picture of Guangxi province traveling culture. This article wants take the Chengyang Bridge as the main line, which uses the historical framework to explain the symbolic and cultural significance of the bridge and constructs a picture that the local society from the harmony change to the conflict.The full text divides into five parts:The prolegomenon mainly introducts writing origin, the Dong culture research, the theory and the method.The first chapter introducts the geography space and cultu(?)l space Of Chengyang Dong village.The second chapter describes the architectural style and history of the Chengyang Bridge. Dong people combines the style of the 'pile and fence" building and the Drum - tower together to create the Wind - Rainbridge, this is a unique aesthetic. The Wind - Rain bridge both followed the color of the building from Baiyue tribes, and another component of from the Han palace. It has manifested the Han Nationality and the Dong ancients'cultural exchange.The third chapter explains its social culture connotation of the Chengyang Bridge, and points out the bridge are a special space in that the person and the nature, the person and the person, the person and god can communicate. This is a building with symbols of the culture farming livelihoods. The bridge express that the Dong people pray to multiply and pursuit the well-being of individuals and groups.The fourth chapter describes the development of tourism. The Chengyang Bridge is regarded as a propaganda tool. Its original meaning and the connotation are also experiencing a change. At the same time, the Chengyang Dong village where the life and production had a far-reaching impact by the change of the Chengyang Bridge.The fifth chapter summarizes the full text. The Bridge symbol construction occurred from unconsciousness to consciousness. The human society has "two kinds of production" in order characteristics of the symbol. But in the tourism economy, the local government separated the Chengyang Bridge from the Dong culture, and then caused the bridge to lost in the past many charm. So we should take effective measures to protect the original cultural. Finally, Dong village should absorb theessence and discard the dross actively to promote cultural reconstruction.