Research On Elephant Culture Of China

Throughout the ages, our ancestors with a variety of animals with the deposit symbiosis,creating a rich variety of animal culture. And the elephant culture unique, outstandingrepresentatives of animal culture. Tap the elephant-related cultural resources in the traditionalculture, to reveal the animals and people dependent relationship of coexistence, to increaseawareness of animal protection and natural ecological balance, to establish the idea ofcoexistence and the harmony of the natural world, with realistic and far-reaching significance.Elephants survive in mainland China has a long history, inextricably linked with theproduction and life of our ancestors. Process to get along with people like people graduallycreate a variety of cultural patterns on elephant, known as the Chinese elephant culture. Inproduction and daily life, religious worship, cultural worship different forms andmanifestations, and people’s thinking habits, customs and art have a major impact. Elephantculture continue to the integration of traditional Chinese culture, enriching the nationalculture and national spirit. Is valuable spiritual wealth of traditional Chinese culture, elephantculture, need to continue to inherit and carry forward the process of modernization, theelephant culture concept has been overlooked, resulting in elephants endangered species,ecological imbalance, affecting the national economic construction and social developments.In addition, the scholars of the study elephant culture less and less research is also verylimited, and is gradually being forgotten edge of an urgent need of excavation and finishing.To this end, the author uses a literature review and field survey, and consult a professional, asenior scholar of the school animals, a large quantity of reliable and detailed first-handmaterial, provided the scientific basis for the argument of the relevant arguments.Firstly, from a zoological point of view, the brief description of the morphological andecological characteristics of the elephants, explored the impact of human activities on theelephant endangered pave the way for the below. The past, scholars believe that humanactivities are elephants endangered, the most important and most direct factors, and realizeonce again on the basis of the author put forward innovative physiological characteristics ofthe elephant itself is also an important factor in the endangered provides for the protection ofelephants new theoretical basis; to study the domestication of elephants, through careful investigation and analysis, and the domestication theory, the theoretical basis for thedomestication of animals found. Third, to introduce the human beings around the createelephants cultural and totemism the elephant culture and the early, traditional Chinesephilosophy, the relationship between religions. This chapter research, I found the root causeof elephant culture and manifestations in different cultures. Fourth, we elephant culture topenetrate in the habits and customs, contains culture to explore like the traditional Chinesevirtues, the song praise the beautiful, castigate false evil assistant for human society, peopleHing Lun, change our habits of great practical significance.Finally, as manifestations of culture in the decoration, sculpture and ornamental.Decoration and sculpture from the worship of the elephant culture, where ivory carving has along history, this traditional art in the elephant endangered today, we should be cautious view,do not let the ivory elephants kill murderer. In addition, the elephant is also a gardenornamental in an animal, like the cultural manifestations of diversity, through the hidden likethe culture, people and elephants know each other dependent in harmony with nature andeach other, regardless of, promote and natural harmony of the spirit.