Li River Painting --the social life of things in Guangxi Province, China

Abstract

Li River Painting is a kind of painting with the theme of showing the natural ecology and social humanistic factors of Li River.Li River Painting follows the development of Chinese society.Therefore, they are not only works of art, but also an alternative perspective of social life and culture.Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to elaborate "the social life of things" through the study of Li River Painting,as well as the social and cultural information behind Li River Painting, to build the relationship between Li River Painting and Li River society.In the past, scholars studied Li River Painting from the perspective of art, not from the perspective of "social life of things", ignoring the social significance of "things".This study will study Li River Painting from a new perspective, using anthropologist Arjun Appadurial 's concept of "social life of things" to analyze Li River Painting.Finally, it comes to the conclusion that Li River Painting, as a thing with social life, hasexperienced the social process of commercialization and de-commercialization from "map" to "cultural symbol" in its important historical turning point.In the process of its development, it embodies the unique social, historical and cultural connotation of that time.