Traditional Applied Technology of the Naxi People (Part Two)
This 1994 article by Ding Liping, the second installment of a two-part survey, documents traditional Naxi technological and material culture in Lijiang. It traces the history of Naxi papermaking and block-printing -- including the Mu chieftains' private "Yuhu Jingshe" print workshop and their Ming-dynasty printing of a Kangyur edition -- and argues papermaking predates the commonly cited early-1600s date. It describes Naxi astronomical/calendrical knowledge encoded in Dongba pictographs (the Five Elements myth of the golden frog, a Bage divination chart paralleling Chinese stems, branches, and trigrams) and folk meteorology, plus the herbalist tradition behind the Yulong Bencao materia medica. A final section describes the "Three Sides and One Screen Wall" residential architecture, Lijiang's stone bridges and memorial archway, stone-coffin culture, and the folk wood-carving tradition exemplified by carver Yang Yuzhao.
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