Preserved Dongba culture on display in Paris
- By Wu Jin
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The Paris University of Language and Culture (BULAC) hosts an exhibition of Dongba culture, a distinctive cultural heritage from the Naxi Ethnic Group that inhabits mountain villages in southwestern China. [Photo/China.org.cn] |
Despite meager funding, the program has won the support of the Beijing Federation of Social Science Circles, Beijing Social Sciences Planning Office and the National Social Sciences Planning Office. It has also attracted the attention of the international community.
Andrea Cairola, an official from the Beijing Office of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), while meeting with the members of ADCA in May, 2015, said the state-level rescue and preservation of the ancient manuscripts of Dongba Culture was a good beginning. He hoped the program could be expanded to the international community with the overseas parties joining in the building of a platform involving multilateral cooperation.
The French counterpart in hosting the exhibition and symposium received a gift -- a book cover made of Naxi paper. Its title "In search of the ancient Dongba Manuscript" is signed by a local priest -- 73-year-old Xi Shanghong.
When Zhang presented the book cover to Tsagourian, head of the library of BULAC, the latter exclaimed that it is a living language of the only pictography in the world and thus immeasurably precious.
The ADCA also screened two documentaries -- "Traditional Papermaking and Related Cultural Heritage of the Naxi Minority," and "Return of Ancient Dongba Manuscript" on Nov. 15 during the Chinese Film Festival in Paris.
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