Meishan scroll paintings and ancestor worship of the Flat Land Yao people in Gongcheng Yao Autonomous District, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China

IF 0.9 Q3 ETHNIC STUDIES

Asian Ethnicity Pub Date : 2022-01-02 DOI:10.1080/14631369.2021.2021795

Fangrong Liao, Preechawut Apirating, P. Kotchapakdee, Homhuan Buarabha

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Abstract

ABSTRACT This article focuses on the Flat Land Yao (Pingdi Yao,平地瑶) people’s ancestor worship reflected in the Meishan scroll paintings which were discovered in Shuibin village, Guanyin township, Gongcheng Yao Autonomous District, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China in 1984. The Yao people believed that Meishan was not only their ancestral habitation located in ancient central Hunan, but also the pure land for the ancestors’ souls. For the long migration duration and the unfavourable preservation environment, the existing number of Meishan scroll paintings of Flat Land Yao is small, and the two sets of scrolls in Gongcheng Yao Autonomous District are rare art works in the series. The dress style, decoration, generation names of the ancestors, and the skills of the painters reflected that the Flat Land Yao people had absorbed the culture of the surrounding nationalities, especially the Han culture. Confucianism also had an important influence on the Flat Land Yao.

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广西恭城瑶族自治区平地瑶族梅山卷画与祖先崇拜

本文以平地姚（Pingdi Yao，平地瑶) 1984年在广西壮族自治区恭城瑶族自治区观音乡水滨村发现的梅山卷轴画反映了人们对祖先的崇拜。姚人认为，梅山不仅是他们祖居湘中的地方，也是祖先心灵的净土。由于迁徙时间长，保存环境恶劣，眉山现存的平地瑶卷轴画数量较少，恭城瑶族自治区的两套卷轴是该系列中罕见的艺术作品。从服饰风格、装饰、祖先的辈名、画家的技艺等方面反映出平地瑶族吸收了周边民族的文化，尤其是汉族文化。儒家思想对平地姚也产生了重要影响。

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Asian Ethnicity PHYSIOLOGY-

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2.80

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6.20%

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期刊介绍： In the twenty-first century ethnic issues have assumed importance in many parts of the world. Until recently, questions of Asian ethnicity and identity have been treated in a balkanized fashion, with anthropologists, economists, historians, political scientists, sociologists and others publishing their studies in single-discipline journals. Asian Ethnicity provides a cross-disciplinary, international venue for the publication of well-researched articles about ethnic groups and ethnic relations in the half of the world where questions of ethnicity now loom largest. Asian Ethnicity covers any time period, although the greatest focus is expected to be on the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.