Study Of Secular Lewoo In Dunhuang Grottoes Murals

The paper’s theme is to list the secular lewoo in Dunhuang grottoes muralssystematically, which mainly through analysis of the artistic modality and artistic styleto achieve the level of learning and understanding of the secular lewoo in Dunhuanggrottoes murals.Lewoo image in Dunhuang grottoes murals can be divided into two categories asheaven lewoo image and earthly secular lewoo image. The heaven lewoo imagemainly includes Welkin gigaku, Flying Apsaras gigaku, Kalavinka gigaku and so on.Dunhuang grottoes murals are the combined product of Buddhism activities andsecular life in mortal world. The content of the murals puts the Buddhism subjects’reflection as the main body, but with the development of the time, human real lifescenarios has flickered in the murals with gradual increase-ment. These real lifescenarios portrayed in Buddhist murals are called secular murals. The lewoo formsappearing in the secular murals are named secular lewoo.This paper just follows the idiomatic appellation “Lewoo” referring to ancientmusic and dance, since music and dance are closely connected from ancient times, atmost times dance is part of music, music is part of dance. Based on mastering therelated materials, the writer had on-the-spot investigation on Dunhuang Grottoes, andalso had on-site knowledge of sectional Lewoo images without picture materialsbuilding on verifying the existing materials. Content analysis and Buddhismphilosophy probing from a relatively macro point of view can be found in this paper.According to the different contents the lewoo mural embody, the writer dividesDunhuang secular lewoo murals into provider lewoo figure, lewoo figure of Buddhabiography and Buddhist stories portraits, and folk life lewoo figure these three sorts,and attempts to investigate the origins and development of secular dance in DunhuangGrottoes murals from the longitudinal point, analyze its performance types,morphological characteristics and influence, consequently sketch the contours ofsecular lewoo’s style and features in Dunhuang grottoes murals, hereby to enrich theresearch of secular lewoo in Dunhuang mural art treasure house. Folk dancechoreography with contemporary works of aesthetic value and artistic features of theDunhuang frescoes has some inspiration and reference for the innovation of the academic research work.