Surveying the Dongba culture of the Naxi nationality in China

The author of this article makes a survey of the present state of the Naxi Nationality's Dongba Culture from the perspectives of cultural anthropology and science of art. Three issues are raised: the origination of the mode of culture from the signification of the existence of life; the blank areas of the culture of art in today's China; the construction of favorable communicative ecology and cultural ecology and strategies for cultural changes.