Zhaoshutunyunanmunuona
01 · Historical Records
Zhaoshutun and Namu Nuona is the most famous, most excellent and most widely current love narrative poem of the Dai, recorded in the Dai Le script and chanted in the Dai Le language, widely current in the Xishuangbanna Dai area and in South-East Asia, with a long history and numerous versions. The poem depicts the outward beauty of the protagonists and further reveals their noble virtue of loyalty in love and love of home, praising their brave, tenacious and unyielding spirit.
02 · Core Techniques & Process
The oral long poem Zhaoshutun and Namu Nuona is the most famous, most excellent and most widely current love narrative poem of the Dai, widely current in the Xishuangbanna Dai area and in South-East Asia. Recorded in the Dai Le script and chanted in the Dai Le language, it shapes with the distinctive artistic method of the Dai the two perfect images of Zhaoshutun and Namu Nuona, representing the typical character of the Dai and holding their ideal pursuits. It depicts their outward beauty and further reveals their noble virtue of loyalty in love and love of home, praising their brave, tenacious and unyielding spirit, and embodies in a concentrated way the essence of traditional Dai culture. Widely current in Xishuangbanna and the Dai areas of South-East Asia, the poem is a representative work of Dai folk literature.
The Narrative Verse of the Poem
The orally transmitted verse form of Zhaoshutun and Namu Nuona.
The Prose Long Story
The orally transmitted prose form of Zhaoshutun and Namu Nuona.
Buddhist Temple Murals and Scripture Paintings
Murals and scripture paintings created by folk painters on the theme of the poem.
03 · Regional Records & Related Items
Zhaoshutun and Namu Nuona has the Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture as its core area of circulation and spreads to Burma, Laos, Thailand and other South-East Asian countries; the poem has not only orally transmitted narrative verse and prose long stories but was also used by folk painters as the subject of Buddhist temple murals and scripture paintings.
04 · Cultural Value & Contemporary Safeguarding
It has a long history and numerous versions; it has not only the orally transmitted narrative verse and prose long story but was also used by folk painters as the subject of Buddhist temple murals and scripture paintings, and in some places even lakes and ponds are named after the golden lake of Zhaoshutun and Namu Nuona. Today few artists can chant the whole of Zhaoshutun and Namu Nuona, and this ancient poem urgently needs protection and salvage.
06 · Authoritative Sources & Bibliography
Sources
China Intangible Cultural Heritage Network (ihchina.cn)
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