摘要
Professor Tadayo Watabe is a Japanese expert on the origin and development of rice culture.In his book The Rice Road,Professor Watabe argued that an arc-like area extending from South China to the Assam plain in India is likely to be the starting point of"The Rice Road,"and the source of the world’s rice civilizations.The area identified by Professor Watabe basically overlaps with a belt plotting the distribution of places having the word Na in their name.Wenshan,the home of more than one million Zhuang population in Yunnan Province also lies within this arc. Li Zai Meng Liao,an anthropological documentary in 12 episodes,records for the first time 12 cultural aspects of the Zhuang ethnic group,lying within the Na culture circle.They are:rice culture,bronze drum culture,eco-culture,food culture,clothing culture, village culture,medicine culture,feast culture, ceremonial culture,art culture,religious culture and singing culture.
Professor Tadayo Watabe is a Japanese expert on the origin and development of rice culture. In his book The Rice Road, Professor Watabe argued that an arc-like area extending from South China to the Assam plain in India is likely to be thestarting point of ＂The Rice Road,＂ and the source of the world＇s rice civilizations. The area identified by Professor Watabe basically overlaps with a belt plotting the distribution of places having the word Na in their name. Wenshan, the home of more than one million Zhuang population in Yunnan Province also lies within this arc.
