LI JIANG PAINTING: THE SOCIAL LIFE OF ARTIFACT AND CULTURAL ECOLOGY OF LIJIANG RIVER PLACE, CHINA

Abstract

Lijiang painting is based on Lijiang River, it reflects the social life of artifact and cultural ecology of Lijiang River Place, it is the presentation of the relationship between man and nature, man and society, and man to man, and is a part of the cultural ecology of Lijiang River Place. The purpose of this research is to investigate the cultural ecosystem of Lijiang Rive Place and construct the relationship among the cultural ecology, Lijiang River Place and Lijiang painting. In the past, the research of Lijiang painting is mainly on the perspective of fine arts not Artifact, the connection between Lijiang painting and its background is ignored. In this research, we study the Lijiang painting in a new view, Lijiang painting is placed in the academic vision of social anthropology by using qualitative research methods, and adopted two major research concepts of “Cultural Ecology” and “The Social Life of Thing” of Arjun Appadurai to conduct academic exposition over “Lijiang painting”. Through the study of the Lijiang Painting, we concluded that the development of Lijiang painting is closely related to the development of human beings, Lijiang painting is the combination of natural ecology and human society, in the symbol chain of landscape painting in different periods.