Southeast Asian arts include the performing, literary as well as artistic and visual art from Southeast Asia. Though the evolution of the culture of the region influenced with Indian influence. A variety of unifying features predate Indian influence. It known as wet rice or padi navigation, metallurgy, agriculture and ancestor cults. Belief in the mountains were local and widespread. In addition, certain art forms that were not that derived from India such as batik gamelan orchestras. Textiles as well as wayang puppet theatres. Wayang puppet theatre continue to be well-known.

South Asia Southeast Asia refers to the massive peninsula of Indochina. The vast archipelago that often known as The East Indies. The region can divided into the mainland Southeast Asia and insular Southeast Asia. The political units that comprise the region include Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, and the Philippines. The Philippines initially not included due to the fact. That Philippine history not a part of the common pattern of history in Southeast Asia. But, due to its geographical location and it close connections. With its cultural traditions with those that are part of Southeast Asia. It often regarded as the eastern part in Southeast Asia.

A common geographical and climatic pattern observed across all of Southeast Asia. And resulted in a distinct pattern of settlement as well as cultural development. The mountain people typically characterized by a distinct lifestyle in comparison to valley people.

Regional Distinctions Asian

There any examples from Chinese writings composed in Vietnam when it was under Chinese rule 111 BC to AD 939. There scattered instances of Sanskrit writings from Cambodia and Indonesia but the majority writings. Written during the reign of Pagan in Burma flourished c 1049-1300 still in existence. Because they copied and recopied by monks as well as students. However, in the 14th and 15th centuries, traditional literatures began to emerge within Burma and Java. As well as the first national literature created in Vietnam.

The Tai rulers from Laos and Siam took their courts to studying Pali of the Mon who they had defeated, as well as Sanskrit of the Khmer and Khmer, who they oppressed however, filled with national pride and inspired by the Burmese examples, they created their own language of the local dialect. However, Cambodia declined. While the monks of Theravada Buddhist Theravada Buddhism it the Southeast Asian form of Buddhism monasteries published some pieces in Pali but no vernacular writing developed until Khmer-speaking people those who lived in an region comprising roughly of the present day Cambodia were using a variety of words borrowed in the Tai.

The Prestige Of The Writer

At the time of the King’s reign and kings, the Southeast Asian writer enjoyed patronage and a high-ranking place in the society. But he could not earn a living from writing for a living. Manuscripts needed to composed in hand and only for well-known works could two or three copies created, also with a pen. There was no possibility about selling the work. The writer only hoped to noticed by his king and receive the possibility of a financial payment or even a royal office. At the time printing presses were first introduced during the colonial period of late 19th-century, the royals had gone along with their writers.

Colonial rule wiped out and destroyed traditional literary forms of the vernacular that left behind only oral literature that were folklore and folk songs. The concept of literary criticism that as defined in Western societies never recognized, whether in the early or contemporary literary works of Southeast Asia. With the exception of a few scattered texts on versification, thus there no writings on literary critique and literary histories published prior to the colonial era. In the beginning.

The attention in the field of European scholars mostly restricted to archaeology. Only a handful made the attempt to research a specific kind of or period of vernacular text (for instance, the vernacular version from the Ramayana or the epic Sanskrit epic from India or of the 14th century Javanese poetry). There’s a study in French covering Thai writing and another work in Burmese that focuses on Burmese literature, but aside from that. No research on anything related to Southeast Asian literature as a complete has completed, done. In this case, the native scholars are largely to the blame.