Bouyei Batik Patterns in Correlation to the Oral Culture and Socio- Historical Context of the Bouyei People: Taking the Sawtooth Batik Pattern as An Example

Xiaoang Huang

2025

Abstract

The Bouyei ethnic group is a minority ethnic group residing in mostly Guizhou, China, with a unique oral culture -where information is passed down through singing and visual art forms instead of writing-exemplified through Pan songs. This paper will analyze the parallelism and correlation between the Bouyei Batik dye, an art form significant to the Bouyei people, and the Bouyei pan songs. Specifically, how are the Bouyei Pan songs and Batik dye correlated to each other: in terms of recurring motifs and symbolisms, mainly analyzing the “Sawtooth” Batik pattern and Making Grains song, and the animalistic patterns and the Love song, through a lens of formal elements in visual art and lyrical meaning.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Huang X. (2025). Bouyei Batik Patterns in Correlation to the Oral Culture and Socio- Historical Context of the Bouyei People: Taking the Sawtooth Batik Pattern as An Example. In Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Innovative Education and Social Development - Volume 1: IESD; ISBN 978-989-758-779-5, SciTePress, pages 393-397. DOI: 10.5220/0013996500004912

in Bibtex Style

@conference{iesd25,
author={Xiaoang Huang},
title={Bouyei Batik Patterns in Correlation to the Oral Culture and Socio- Historical Context of the Bouyei People: Taking the Sawtooth Batik Pattern as An Example},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Innovative Education and Social Development - Volume 1: IESD},
year={2025},
pages={393-397},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0013996500004912},
isbn={978-989-758-779-5},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Innovative Education and Social Development - Volume 1: IESD
TI - Bouyei Batik Patterns in Correlation to the Oral Culture and Socio- Historical Context of the Bouyei People: Taking the Sawtooth Batik Pattern as An Example
SN - 978-989-758-779-5
AU - Huang X.
PY - 2025
SP - 393
EP - 397
DO - 10.5220/0013996500004912
PB - SciTePress