老挝克木人铜鼓文化考察

AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE KHMER PEOPLE’S BRONZE DRUM CULTURE IN LAOS

克木铜鼓主要有三种类型,也代表三代铜鼓。铜鼓对克木族人而言,珍贵而神圣,铜鼓于其历史中的重要意义在他们的记忆中挥之不去,铜鼓深深地影响着克木人的现实生活,人们依然遵循一定的习俗使用铜鼓。但目前老挝克木人制造铜鼓的技术已失传,而且铜鼓流失严重,铜鼓的神圣性已逐渐受到侵蚀,以往使用铜鼓的传统仪式亦越来越简化,甚至消失了,铜鼓文化明显趋于衰落,保护和传承发展克木文化依然任重道远。

There are mainly three types of Khmer bronze drums.They represent three generations of bronze drums.Bronze drums are precious and sacred to the Khmer people,and the historical significance of bronze drums has always been kept in their memory.In the Khmer people’s modern life,bronze drums still plays an important role and some customs about bronze drums are still practiced today.However,the technology of making bronze drums by Khmer people has been lost,and more and more bronze drums have disappeared seriously.The sacredness of bronze drums is reduced and weaken.The traditional rituals of using bronze drums in the past have been simplified and even disappeared.Obviously,the bronze drum culture has declined.So it is still a long way to protect and inherit the Khmer culture.