【文章內(nèi)容簡介】 to use and meat to eat, living an affluent life in heaven. The soaring big bird on the totem columns implies that it is going to lead the Yao people to a happier future. The totem columns and the relief patterns fully display the unique and timehonored culture of the whitepants Yao People, showing profound significance.
橋墩兩側(cè)的銅鼓則是按照瑤族銅鼓的摸樣打造。在荔波瑤族文化里，銅鼓是盛大節(jié)日的主要旋律，但又不僅僅是一種娛樂工具，它是整個白褲瑤民族的精神和靈魂，是智慧和財富的匯聚，是至高無上的圣物，更是一種權(quán)力的象征?，幧浆幾迦嗣駥~鼓視為神賜之物，鎮(zhèn)寨之寶，至今荔波瑤山還保存著銅鼓三百多面，成為令考古學(xué)家驚嘆的文化―活化石‖。
The bronze drums on the two sides of the piers were made according to the bronze drums of the Yao people. In the Yao culture of Libo, bronze drums are essential in big festivals. They are not only a tool for entertainment, but also the spirit and soul of the entire whitepants Yao people, a mixture of wisdom and wealth, a holy article, and a symbol of authority. The Yao people of Yaoshan regard bronze drums as treasures endowed by gods. Up to now Yaoshan of Libo still preserves more than 300 bronze drums, which have bee amazing cultural ―living fossils‖ to archaeologists.
瑤族銅鼓通體用純銅鑄成，呈圓墩形，面徑通常為5060厘米左右，高2030厘米。鼓面圓而平，下接鼓身，連接部分略外凸，曲腰，中空，圓形敞口底，兩側(cè)有耳?，幾迨且粋€信仰百神，追趕太陽的民族，因此，鼓面正中央的圖案就是光芒四射的太陽光，四周圖案則是緊跟著太陽的瑤族兒女或是蟲魚、鳥獸、花卉等，象征與大自然競爭，不斷奮斗的精神?，幾宓拿恳幻驺~鼓，都傳承著千百年的瑤族精神，它們凝聚著生命，能夠保佑瑤族同胞歲歲平安、風(fēng)調(diào)雨順。銅鼓還是有靈性的，有雌雄之分，公母之別，有興趣的話大家不仿仔細(xì)辨別或猜測一下。（兩面銅鼓有一細(xì)微區(qū)別：鼓面下部中間有一個印記，凸起的是雄，凹下的為雌）。
The Yao bronze drums are cast with pure bronze in the shape of a round mound. Their face diameters range between 50cm and 60cm, with a height of 2030cm. The drum face is round and flat, connected to the drum body below. The jointing part is slightly convex. The drum is hollow inside, with a round and
open bottom and two ears on both sides. The Yao people worship gods and chase the sun, therefore, the pattern in the middle of the drum face is a shining sun, surrounded by the Yao people or insects, fish, birds, beasts, flowers, etc. which symbolize the spirit of ―peting with nature and uemittingly struggling‖. Every bronze drum of the Yao people inherits the Yao spirits of thousands of years. The drums mingle with lives, and bless the Yao people with safety and good weather for the crops. Bronze drums are said to have sexes. If you are interested, you can guess which one is male and which one is female. (There is a tiny difference between the two bronze drums: there is a mark in the middle below the drum faces. The drum with the convex mark is male, while the one with the concave mark is female.)
―活著的銅鼓、藏著的文明‖ ——銅鼓貫穿了瑤族歷史文化的長河，瑤族更是以其獨(dú)具特色的民居、婚俗、葬俗、服飾等民族文化風(fēng)情，倍受世人關(guān)注，被聯(lián)合國科教文組織認(rèn)定為民族文化保留最完整的一個民族，被稱為―人類文明的活化石‖。
―The living bronze drums, the hidden civilization‖. Bronze drums went through the long history and culture of the Yao ethnic minority, while the Yao people draw wide attention with its distinctive dwellings, marriage and funeral traditions, costumes and other ethni