| Ba people,one of the ancient ethnic groups living in Southwest China,have formed a cultural content with strong ethnic characteristics under their unique natural environment,historical environment and social environment.Ba people worship witchcraft and martial arts,and are good at singing and dancing.Their unique ethnic spirit has evolved into their own unique regional culture Ba culture.According to the unearthed cultural relics of Ba people,this ancient culture is very popular the old people adore the tiger pattern very much.The frequency of tiger pattern on Ba bronzes is much higher than other figures and characters.Ba bronzes are considered as the carrier of Ba spirit,and tiger pattern is the unique Ba mark on Ba bronzes.In order to explore the deep meaning of tiger shaped decorative patterns on Ba bronzes and the spirit of Ba culture,based on the tiger pattern of Ba people’s bronzes,this paper uses pannofsky’s iconology theory,combined with the comprehensive methods of archaeology,art,ethnology and so on,to classify the unearthed tiger patterns of Ba people.Through the analysis and comparison of a large number of tiger patterns,and the support of literature,it explains the Ba people’s tiger pattern The external performance and internal reasons of people’s worship of tigers.This paper is divided into five parts.The first chapter is the introduction,which mainly analyzes the research background,the significance and value of the topic,the research ideas and methods of this work,and defines the related concepts and methods and research scope of the research object.At the same time,the research status at home and abroad and related research are sorted out and analyzed.In the second chapter,the basic theory of iconology research method is introduced,and the applicability of iconology research method and tiger pattern research of Ba bronze ware is analyzed.At the same time,it introduces the basic status of the Ba bronze artifacts unearthed,and sorts out the parts with tiger patterns in the unearthed Ba bronze artifacts.The third chapter,through the historical and natural significance of the tiger,reveals the influence factors of the tiger on the formation of Ba culture,classifies and compares the tiger patterns of different shapes on bronze ware,and analyzes the image forms.The fourth chapter analyzes the external performance of the white tiger worship of Ba people and the spiritual connotation of Ba people through the tiger pattern.As well as the reasons for the change of Ba totem culture,as well as the cultural exchange and influence between Ba people and the outside world.The fifth chapter,tiger culture as an important culture of the Chinese nation,through the description of literature,folk and folk art,analyzes its inner spiritual image and ethnic psychological characteristics.On the basis of a large number of bronze tiger patterns of Ba people,this paper analyzes the inner meaning of Ba people’s worship of tiger and martial spirit,the external performance of tiger culture in ethnic culture and the shaping of ethnic psychological characteristics.After Ba culture is integrated into the Central Plains culture,tiger culture and tiger culture in other areas together construct the Chinese tiger culture.Its artistic connotation and cultural characteristics have a profound impact on other ethnic groups and later generations. |
