Traditional Handicrafts of the Bai People

The Bai people are unique in art, and their architecture, carving and painting arts are famous in the ancient and modern times. The three towers of Chongsheng Temple in Dali built in the Tang Dynasty, the main tower is nearly sixty meters high, divided into sixteen levels, the work is exquisite, similar to the Small Wild Goose Pagoda in Xi'an. Jianchuan Shibaoshan Grottoes, skillful and exquisite technology, lifelike figures. It has China's grottoes statue of **** the same point and a strong national style, in the history of China's rock art occupies a high position. Yuan and Ming since the construction of the Jifushan temple complex, overlapping arches, corner of the roof, doors and windows with the carving method carved out of a layer of figures, flowers and birds, skillful, durable. They are out of the famous "Jianchuan carpenter" hand. Bai lacquer, high artistic attainments, the Yuan and Ming dynasties taken by the high art of lacquer, mostly selected from Yunnan; Dali lacquer to the Ming Dynasty, has been regarded as a precious "Song tick". Eight allied forces invaded Beijing, was stolen by the imperialists of the "Nanzhao Zhongxing national history scroll", is eighty-nine years of white painters Zhang Shun, Wang Fengzong's masterpiece. It depicts the myths and legends of the establishment of Nanzhao in the form of continuous short paintings, vivid and beautiful, and is one of the precious cultural relics in China. The "Dali Scroll" created by Zhang Shengwen in the year of 1172 is known as the "Treasure of the Southern Heaven". The painting is ten feet long, 134 panels, with the theme of "Protecting the King of Kings", painting six hundred and twenty-eight portraits with different appearances. The brushwork is exquisite and skillful, and the work is exquisite and delicate, which is a treasure of China's ancient art.

The Bai Opera, developed from the classical opera "Blow Blow Chamber", has distinctive national characteristics. The Bai people have a high cultural standard and various talents.

The ancient Bai people had a combination of music and dance. Nanzhao Bai poet Yang Qikun's "on the way", Yang Yizong's "title Daci Temple peony", "Dong Yun song" and other poems are known as "masters" masterpieces, included in the "poetry of the whole of Tang Dynasty". Wang Fu Yun", "Snake Bone Pagoda", "kill state officials", "hook said head" and other literary works, glorified the ancient Bai people in the class struggle and production struggle of heroic characters. Nanzhao famous "lion dance", in the Tang Dynasty has been introduced to the Central Plains, "Nanzhao Fengsheng music" in the Tang Dynasty court is listed as one of the Tang Dynasty music 14. The Bai Clan Tune" is a widely circulated "three seven one five" (the first three lines of seven words, followed by a five-line) metrical poem. 15 century, some literati applied this folk song form to write famous poems, such as Yang黼's "lyrics about the mountain flower monument". The Bai Opera "Blow Blow" is a comprehensive art developed on the basis of the early "Da Benqu".