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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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