The Culture Of The Traditional Folk Art Reproduction

This dissertation is to investigate the inheritance of folk-art through the case study of Zhuang's silk ball of Jiuzhou in Jingxi county, Guangxi province. The previous researches on the silk ball mostly focus on the introduction and analysis from the historical cultural macro angle. They are lacking in field cases and the using of ethnology, anthropology, sociology approach. In addition, the previous studies have overlooked the contact between the silk ball with the society and culture in the current. It's difficult to show the process of silk ball's inheritance in Jiuzhou from the past to the present.This dissertation thinks that the inheritance is an intrinsic property in culture, and is also an intrinsic requirement in the continuous development of human society. About the study of inheritance, not only should pay attention to the folklore but also note the national identity, groups and the cultural changes from the past to the present. Therefore, this dissertation tries to surpass the previous relatively stable research paradigm about the silk ball. It will place the silk ball in a new historical context and research paradigm, and shows an overall and comprehensive analysis about the process of silk ball's inheritance from "historical evolution", "interaction with culture and society", "the conversion from cultural heritage to the cultural capital" several contents by the narrative approach in which combining diachronicity and synchronicity together. The main interests in this study are the following: the source of silk ball's vitality, the way of rebirth and revival and the opportunity for survival in the development of modern age, the inheritance strategy, rules, function, status, changes and crises in the current living environment.The author adopts Boudieu's theory about "the cultural reproduction" based on solid field work. She places the silk ball in a history context, and analyzes the process of silk ball's inheritance which using the methods of ethnology, anthropology, art and so on from the environment, mechanism, inheritor of inheritance several elements. The work helps re-know and inherit the craft of silk ball from the whole angle. Further speaking, this dissertation will be helpful about profoundly understanding the interaction between society with culture which researches the process of folk-art's inheritance and explores the situation of traditional folk-art in the modernization. And it provides the more reasonable development environment and the mechanism for the folk-art including the silk ball.This dissertation constitutes of three sections, introduction, body(7 chapters) and the conclusion.The introduction talks about the origin and the meaning of this research, the review of the relative document and the explanation of the relative conception, the theoretical angle and the ideas of this research, the methods and structure of the study, etc.The body of the dissertation includes seven chapters which mainly present the process of silk ball's inheritance of in Jiuzhou.Chapter 1: "Space and Social groups: the Background of Silk Ball's Community". One of the principals of ethnology is holism. Holism tells all factors of one culture are mutually interdependent. So, we have no choice but to capitalize on the culture affiliated to the entire while studying culture. It's the key point of this chapter. Therefore, the author introduces the natural historical background of Jingxi and the space, daily life, belief of folklore in Jiuzhou.Chapter 2: "Track Back the History of Silk Ball's Inheritance in Traditional Ecological Environment". The chapter introduces the history, manufacture, activity, social function and the aesthetic expression of the silk ball, and describes its cultural ecology and the intrinsic mechanism in traditional cultural environment.Chapter 3: "Interruption of the Silk Ball's Inheritance in the Great Cultural Revolution". The author focuses on the silk ball's destiny during the Great Cultural Revolution. She inspects the influence which the nation strength to the silk ball's inheritance during the year 1966 to 1976 on the Great Cultural Revolution, and refers to people's all sorts of achievements and the changes of marriage at that time.Chapter 4: "Revival and Production: the Industrialization of Silk Ball". The silk ball has obtained the restoration gradually in Jiuzhou since the reform and open policy as the big bacgroud after 1980. The chapter narrates the process of silk ball's production and industrialization in Jiuzhou. The author will focus on the social environment and the behavior of inheritor at that time.Chapter 5: "Landscape and Stage: the Performance of Silk Ball". The silk ball has become a kind of cultural capital of the local government and the crafter after reproduction. The author will narrate the performance of the local government and the folk-crafter using the cultural capital from "the construction of local performance field", "the performance of silk ball in stage", "the making of silk ball's cultural festival" three elements. Through the performance and interaction with outside, on the one hand, the silk ball of Jiuzhou has expand the influence in society, on the other hand, the Zhuang were beginning to strengthen the national identity and the place identity.Chapter 6: "Inheritance and Evolution: the Cultural Change of Silk Ball". At first, this chapter carries on narration and summary to the inheritance of silk ball in Jiuzhou at present, then describes and analyzes about the change of silk ball. The dissertation believed that the cultural characteristic and the inheritance mechanism of silk ball had already had many changes although it can inherit in the current. And the study carries on the key narration from the social function, artistic form, inheritance mechanism, the inheritor several aspects.Chapter 7: "Continuity and Re-creation: the Silk Ball's Inheritance in Reproduction". The chapter thinks that the inheritance of silk ball is a process of dynamic cultural reproduction and unceasing diversification through the previous narration and analysis. And it analyses the influence of various social forces on the silk ball's inheritance drawing on Boudieu's theory about cultural reproduction. Then the author summarized the inheritance mechanism of silk ball.Conclusion: Based on the analysis of the above chapters, the author obtains the key point: we can understand the intrinsic mechanism and the basic reason for the inheritance of silk ball, only by placing the silk ball in the concrete environment and analyzing the influence of various social forces on its inheritance. And at last, this chapter provides the related instruction and the experience for the inheritance of folk-art including the silk ball.