Civilian 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 framework is primarily composed of summaries of the fourteen expedition routes and nearly a hundred exquisite close-ups 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. As time passes and society evolves, merely a dozen years later, the vast amount of outstanding folk arts passed down for thousands of years in the Yellow River Basin, which they recorded, have largely disappeared. 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 large number of the Chinese nation's finest traditional folk arts.