Dongba Culture
Dongba Culture is the soul of Lijiang
ancient town . Dongba culture is an integral part of Naxi
culture , referred to as the ancient culture of the ethnic
Naxi . It is called so because it is mostly found in the Dongba
religion , which is believed to be one thousand years old
. It chiefly consists of scriptures, paintings, music , dances
, ritual implements and religious services.
Dongba script , a kind of pictograph,
possessing more than 1,400 characters , is believed to be
the only well preserved living pictographic language in
the world . It is a precious cultural heritage of mankind
. About 40,000 volumes of Dongba scriptures have been found
today, all written in Dongba pictographic characters. These
scriptures are kept in the libraries or museums in Lijiang
, Kunming ,Nanjing , Beijing , Taiwan, the United States
, Britain , Germany and France respectively . The Dongba
dance chart , recorded in Dongba pictographs , is among
the earliest of its king in the world .Dongba paintings
are chiefly of three kinds: woods board painting , paper
board painting and scroll painting . Among them , the scroll
painting is best known with its representative work "The
Sacred Journey ".
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