Discuss Nanguan System Wenjhen Of Taiwan Temple Culture From Source And Music Aspect

Jhentou, a performing group of folk art to accompany with God during the parade in the temple celebration, is the most interactive folk art with people in the temple activities. Jhentou was developed vigorously not only in quantity but also in varieties in Taiwan due to the plenty of temples, and folk belief. According to the statstics, more than 200 different types of Jhentou exist in Taiwan, most of them are Fulao system Jhentou of HAN nationality.Wunjhen" and " Wujhen" are the most popular Taiwan Jhentou by its performing nature. However, scholars thought that the classified way of "Wenjhen" and "Wujhen" could not cover all the Taiwan Jhentou, thus Jhentou were divided into several different types by different point of views after A.D.1990 Moreover, Nanguan and Beiguan are considered two major systems in musical Jhentou.In this paper, different classified way of Nanguan system Jhentou, Wenjhen, Siaohu Jhentou, musical Jhentou, drama Jhentou, vocal Jhentou will be discussed, epecially for Chegu Jhen, Jhuma Jhen, Niouli Jhen, Taohuaguodu Jhen, Cisiang Jhen,,Taipingge Jhen, Wunwulangjyun Jhen. Otherwise, Nanguan Jhen is a narrow Nanguan musical Jhentou, thus it is also necessary to be discovered.This paper will start to discuss Wenjhen of Nanguan system from the "source'and "musical aspect". For the source aspect, other than the fable of documents and past investigation, source can be discovered from the biography histories, scholar notes, literature, and novel. On the other hand, Not only Musical aspect was divided into "musical instrument" and " program" but also the program contains two major group, "musical system program" and" instrumental program". More specifically, Nanguan instrumental system" and "folk song instrumental system cab be defined in instrumental program. Besides the reorganization, induction, discussion, comparison and the research of past document record, author's investigation would be mostly used to discuss Nanguan system Wenjhen of Taiwan temple culture.Though the culture of Taiwan Jhentou is vivid and colorful, official and mainstream culture would not take seriously on this. In addition of external change and crashing, the development of Wenjhen was gradually taken over by Wujhen. Therefore this paper was not only recorded for preservation, but also for future research. Most importantly, keeping memory and testimony for the history is the main goal.