佤族的鼓与鼓文化

在佤族社会发展的历史长河中,木鼓和木鼓文化是佤族文化特征中的一个极为彰显的文化事项。而木鼓与铜鼓在佤族文化中属于两个子文化系统。它们承载了佤族的历史和文化,成为一个民族文化的象征符号。铜鼓在人们的社会生活中,特别是在精神领域里,曾经起着十分重要的特殊作用。佤族木鼓并不是产生于某种传说故事,而是产生于他们先人的生产劳动之中。在木鼓的身上,人们赋予了太多的思想和情感,使之承载了太多的文化内容,成为佤族文化当然的代表性器物。木鼓文化以其丰富的文化意蕴存留在人们心中。

The Drums and Drum Culture of the Wa Nationality

In its long history,the Wa nationality has had the wooden drum and its culture express their ethnic culture.In Wa culture,the wooden drum and the bronze drum belong to two sub-cultures that carry and symbolize their typical culture and history.The bronze drum once played a key role in their spiritual and social life.The wooden drum did not emerge from a legend or story but from the Wa's production.Thus,the wooden drum carries with itself rich emotions and ideas and has become a representative of Wa culture.