Civil · Yellow River

Author: Yang Xianrang
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Publish Date: 2005-01-01
Features: In the 1980s, the author led a team on fourteen expeditions to explore folk arts in the Yellow River Basin, achieving remarkable and unprecedented results. The textual part of this book is compiled based on the author's original field notes, spanning hundreds of thousands of words. The book's basic framework consists of summaries of the fourteen expedition routes and nearly a hundred stunning portrayals of traditional folk arts. Nearly a thousand reversal slides permanently document the cultural treasures of the Chinese nation, culminating in the most comprehensive and complete work on folk culture in the Yellow River Basin to date. With the passage of time and social evolution, merely a dozen years later, the vast array of outstanding folk arts passed down for thousands of years in the Yellow River Basin, which they recorded, have largely disappeared today. Most of the renowned elderly artists are now gone, taking their art forms with them. What we see in the book today is the final echo of a host of the Chinese nation's outstanding traditional folk arts.