Title: On the Emergent Choice of Dong's Ancient Culture
Abstract: The residential area of the Dong nationality belonged to the Zangke region in the ancient time.The main characters of the traditional civilization are as follows.One is that the nationality which claimed itself as Gan and consisted of three branches as gaeml laox,gaeml jaox and gaeml tanx integrated into a life community.The other is that at the beginning of the original cognition,the ancient culture which was caused by both the originality and constructionism and advocated the national subjective consciousness and spirit was established.Like the traditional remnants called in the earlier time,the spirit characters of the ancient culture were embodied in the following facts.The first one is that the culture is still alive on the basis of both culture and society.The second is that it constantly creates the emergent culture which can not be verified empirical,meaningful and valuable by the dominant culture and is opposed to the residual culture.The Dong nationality's passion for pickled food,a custom,testifies to that.Analysis indicates that this symbolized customof the Dong nationality,serving as the interpretant sign,shows the attitude of a nationality towards the yangc nyenc goc kiup map mens guangl—a theory of recognizing the world and themselves,i.e.from the perspective of ontology,they reflect philosophically on the predestination and creativity of the living environment of the nationality,which accounts for why the Dong ancient culture,while basing on its conventionalism,gives priority to its creativity.
Publication Year: 2012
Publication Date: 2012-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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