![]() ![]() ![]() In particular, in the sphere of navigation, Indians and Chinese have got acquainted with boats with the balance weight from Malays and till now use old Malay names of measures and weights. ![]() Moreover, it is possible to speak about a return influence of SEA culture. External influence was transformed by local societies as the culture of Ancient Greece by European peoples, harmonized with local ideas and customs. At the same time it was not a mere imitation of the Indian and Chinese canons. Arts of this period, in particular, in Cambodia (Angkor), Myanmar (Pagan), and Indonesia (Central Java) has reached the heights comparable to the best samples of European arts. A great impulse for culture of the region was Indian and Chinese. The most advanced of all civilizations of the region was the Dong-Son culture. In sphere of manufacture this entity was characterized by cultivation of rice on irrigated fields, domestication of bulls and buffaloes, use of metals, development of sea navigation in the field of social order – by the important role of women, by the social organization of communal type, typical for irrigation economy in art and culture by distribution of various kinds of puppet theater, gong orchestras, special methods of fabric painting (batik, ikat), by building houses on piles, occurrence of various types of games with rotan balls. That allowed ancient Chinese to speak about a common cultural entity of the region and to designate it with the word "Kun Lun". Victor Pogadaev From old times, SEA due to natural - geographical and environmental similarities appeared as a united economic and cultural - ideological complex. Southeast Asia: Towards a New Stage of Cultural Dialogue Dr. ![]()
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