The Research On Caidiao From The Perspective Of Aesthetic Culture

The Caidiao opera of guangxi is based on Huaguxi in southern hunan,and profited from other folk performing arts forms of Guangxi. It is formed in the late Qing and early Republican periods, spreads in Guangxi and its adjacent parts such as Guangdong,Hunan,Yunnan and Guizhou. Caidiao has attracted many people's judgments, not only developed into one of the biggest local opera, but also became one of the most popular opera in Guangxi. Caidiao is full of Guangxi'local characteristics and ethnic characteristics,and is an important carrier of Bagui culture. However, for some reason, predecessors study to Caidiao was not very completely, most of those study remained on the origin, music characteristic, performance, or from the perspective of folk culture to study it. The study and analysis on Caidiao's aesthetic and cultural connotation is very defective. Therefore, this article will embark from the aesthetic and cultural angle of view,try to studie Caidiao comprehensively and systematicly.The full text is divided into five chapters, plus an introduction and a conclusion,about 200,000 words.The introduction elaborate the definition of related concepts,the origin and the significance of this topic, the present situation of Caidiao research, the perspective, the method and this innovates of this article. One of the causes that I select this topic is Caidiao's survival condition at present. The other cause is the present situation of Caidiao research. This article advocated that profits from the concept system, the method and the material of cultural anthropology to explanation esthetics question and the esthetic phenomenon, causes the abstract ponder of esthetics established on real diagnosis investigation and the rich material of anthropology, activate esthetics ponder to folk esthetic tradition and native place question. At the same time, this article also believed that integrates the edge and the folk art into the vision of esthetics research, may break through the esthetics research tradition which is mainly carry on the metaphysical ponder to the mainstream art, the classical art so as to summarizes some esthetic principle, and may favor esthetics absorpt esthetic experience that from the edge and the folk. Caidiao is one of Guangxi's representative kinds of drama, its culture is miniature of the entire Bagui culture, the research on Caidiao is advantageous to understand the Bagui overall culture deeply. This article will try to explore the production, the esthetic characteristic, the cultural connotation, as well as cultural change and social change reflected on Caidiao. The innovation of this article mainly manifests in the prominent aesthetic and cultural field of vision. The author will try to research Caidiao's aeshtetic and culture connotation.The first chapter mainly research Caidiao's generation and development. Embark from the embryology and cultural anthropology's angle, the author try to carry on historical tracing form source to branch of Caidiao, and carry on historical and various prove to Caidiao's numerous viewpoints concerns with sources and courses. Afterward, the author agree the viewpoint that Caidiao is based on Huaguxi in southern Hunan,and then discuss the historical origins of the relationship between them. Since its formation,Caidiao has experienced prosperity,decline and revival of three stages.The arthor also explore Caidiao from the relationship between art schools and regional cultures,come to the conclusions that there are three different brances of Caidiao,which is due to the impact of different cultures in Guangxi.Firstly,guilin has the culture traditions for knowledge since ancient times,so Caidiao schools of northern Guangxi has a high art in artistic as well as literary.And then, northern Guangxi is the prevalance of Guiju and Wenchang,so its Caidiao schools is deeply influence by both of them.Secondly,center Guangxi is a multi-ethnic place,so its Caidiao schools is good at absorb the language of various ethnic groups,as well as folk songs and dances into the drama,showing a distinctive feature in the "dance"flavor.Thirdly,southwest Guangxi is adjacent to Guangdong,and also inhabited by the Zhuang ethnic,so its Caidiao schools is greatly influenced by Yueju ang Zhuangju.The second chapter mainly research the cultural origins and cultural structure of Caidiao. Caidiao is based on Huaguxi in southern Hunan,so its early repertoire,music as well as performances is deeply influenced by it.Meanwhile,with the process of spreading and developmenting in Guangxi,Caidiao is greatly influenced by its folk literature and art forms such as folk song and dance,hip-hop arts,drama and so on.This makes it a distinctive Guangxi local characteristics and ethnic characteristics operas,which is different from Huaguxi in southern Hunan.The third chapter mainly research Caidiao's aesthetic characteristic. Placing Caidiao in Bagui culture big background, combining Caidiao's repertoire, Caidiao's performance and the Caidiao's music practice as well as Caidiao's dissemination and accepts, the author conclude Caidiao's unique esthetic characteristic as "happy operas",which mainly includes the following several attributes:1st, the beautifully lyrical drama scenes; 2nd, the witty and funny comedy features; 3rd, the singing and dancing performance; 4th, the fresh and bright style of music. Meanwhile,Caidiao was born in the region inhabited by lots of ethnic minorities in Guangxi,so it shows the contents of a rich repertoire of Guangxi minority customs,reflecting the nation's psychological and aesthetic taste,shaping distinctive national character image,absorping lots of minority languages,music and dance,which is rich in national characteristics and local characteristics of Guangxi.Afterward, starting from Guangxi region environment which caused Caidiao's production, mature and stereotype, by the view of Chinese culture geography, the author carries on the tracing to Caidiao's local flavour. The end result is that the influences of lyric local Chinese culture,the birth of beautiful natural eco-environment of Bagui,the penetration of colorful folklore as well as the infiltratione of folk festivals is the origin that forms the Caidiao's aesthetic characteristic, is also the origin that Caidiao's performance continue to this day.The fourth chapter mainly research the development of Caidiao's repertoire,its cultural connotation as well as artistic features.In order to dynamically display the aesthetic and cultural change of Caidiao's repertoire,the author make a specific analysis to its five stages of development,including its subject sources,plot structure,music features as well as performances.Caidiao is an important reflecting to the culture of Bagui.It plays an important role for us to understand the political,economic,social history,religion,aesthetic orientation,daily life and folk customs of Guangxi.The repertoire about love and marriage is a vivid display of the local love customs with folk songs as the media,and making choices itself on love and marriage. The repertoire about "sanxue"and "wuzi" reflectes the prevailing social values and the survival of people in a variety of social situations.The moral and ethics drama reflectes the civilian's standards of good and evil,but is also significantly impacted by Confucian. The repertoire about bourne and ghost is closely related to its strong beliving in ghosts,which has became an important cultural tradition in Guangxi. The artistic characteristics of Caidiao's repertoire is fully reflected as it is a folk opera.Firstly,it mainly reflects on the working life,love life and family life of farmers.Secondly, it has simple structure and focus on the characeristics of the plot.Thirdly,for the theater of conflict,it does not pursue the complex contradictions,but try to tap the comedy factor in daily life and vivid details to describe characters.The fifth chapter mainly research Caidiao's contemporary survival status and its prospects. Contemplate Caidiao's survival reality from the angle of the reconstruction of macroscopic esthetics or literature theory, attach importance to Caidiao energetic cultural value, the social cohesive value, the entertainment value, and so on multi-dimensional measure of value, then draw the conclusion that Caidiao has multi-dimensional value to people's presently survives, and then proposes the importance of Caidiao ecologically-conscious culture reconstruction. Afterward, unifies the fact that Chinese and foreign play's development, the author proposed some protective measures, such as enhance the protection of Caidiao's living environment and its heritagers,strengthen the education about local culture to improve people's cultural consciouaness,combine Caidiao's protection and its rational utilization,enhance the theater's "seif-sufficiency" awareness, and so on.The conclusion mainly research the value and significance of local culture to the construction of contemporary aesthetics. In the modernization, globalization and cultural diversity of contemporary age and cultural background, local cultures as well as traditional and folk cultures has its great value and significance.