Dongba Culture Museum: Exploring Lijiang Culture and History

#chinatrip The Dongba Cultural Museum is located in the north of the Black Dragon Pond Park, about a 10-minute walk from the Old Town of Lijiang. It was founded in 1984. Currently, the Dunba Cultural Museum collects more than 12,000 cultural relics, 2,500 of which are valuable objects and materials about the traditional culture of the Nakhi minority. The ethnic minority of US and has flourished in Yunnan Province for centuries, and its complex but fascinating Dongba culture bears witness to this. The Dunba culture refers to the written language, sculpture, works of art and architecture about the religion of us and. The Dunba Cultural Museum plays an important role in protecting and promoting the mysterious Dunba culture of the Nakhi minority. The Dongba Culture Museum in Lijiang has the largest number of Dongba culture relics in the world. There are interesting exhibitions such as the Dongba Nasi Culture Exhibition and the Cultural Heritage Exhibition of the Ancient City of Lijiang. At the exhibitions, you can see ancient religious classical works, paintings, as well as household and industrial tools of the Nasi. Religious beliefs The performers dress in traditional costumes, and will faithfully restore the process and decency of ancient religious rituals to worship the heavens, the gods and the wind. Architecture This is a courtyard in the traditional architectural style of Nakhi, the natural background of which is the Black Dragon Pond and Elephant Mountain. The architectures of the Dongba Cultural Museum are carefully designed and correspond to the style of the Nakhi dwellings in Likiang. The main building of the museum is built in the ancient style of the quadrangular courtyard of Nas I. In accordance with the terrain, a group of ancient buildings with a group courtyard as the main building belt has been formed due to the full use of landscape environmental conditions. The Museum of Nakhi Dongba Culture in Lijiang is organized in accordance with the development of the dwellings of the Nakhi people. Taking advantage of the Yuquan water spring and the natural landscape at the western foot of Xiangshan Mountain, ancient people built their cave dwellings, nest dwellings, semi-cave dwellings, tent dwellings, hedge dwellings, as well as traditional dwellings of different stages, such as wooden corrugated houses, with three chambers and one observation wall, four terraces and five courtyards, from north to south. Among them are folk cultural relics characterizing the level of productivity of the Nakhi people in different periods.