The Triple Cultural And Historical Choice Of Yongchang "Precious Volumes"

This dissertation takes a kind of rapping music named "Baojuan" as the object of investigation which comes from Yongchang county of Jinchang, Gansu Province. After sorting the related historical materials from the three-multiple perspectives that are literature, dictation and physical survey, I realize that "Baojuan" is not an inherently musical pattern in Yongchang area,on the contrary, it came from outside as an religious culture. As we know, Hexi area of Gansu was once a stage on the Silk Road, and due to the change and replacement of political regime historically, various kinds of ethnic culture coexisted, which becomes a characteristic of Yongchang. As an exotic culture,"Baojuan" was kept by local people initiatively under the background of multiple cultures after a series of thinking, analysis and comparison on culture. This paper is going to investigate "Baojuan"’s contents and tune names, as well as the evolution of musical pattern, thereby illustrating why the local ancestors made the decision to let "Baojuan" surviving as a kind of culture existing in Yongchang.This dissertation concludes four chapters. The first one provides an investigation background of "Baojuan", specifically which contains the history, ecology, cultural tradition of Yongchang. The second one illustrates the origin and advancement of "Baojuan" from three perspectives, that is dictation, literature and physics respectively. The third one focuses on the "Baojuan" music itself, viewing it as a kind of rapping music and then discussing its objects and tune names respectively. The four part discusses the belief status, that is regarding various propaganda, education and development, the evolution of buddhist music, locally inheritance and development of rapping music so as to express a dynamic process from consciousness to folk and eventually to the rapping music. With the evolution of "Baojuan" from buddhist and religious pattern to the rapping music,"Baojuan"’s function faded gradually as a kind of belief or education while the the function as an entertainment was strengthening. At last, as far as I am concerned, to the residents living in Yongchang, the attitudes to "Baojuan" mainly come from the historical culture and belief. Local residents tended to absorb and assimilate various kinds of cultures, therefore,"Baojuan" was easy to be accepted. In addition, the remote geological location made the local organizations avoid being suppressed from political authorities, because of this, not only did reading "Baojuan" not arouse the sense of scarcity among individuals, but also became a convenient way to meet their belief.