A Research On The Changes Of The Traditional Chinese Folk Culture In The Process Of Urbanization

The process of urbanization in our country brought not only the transformation in the aspects of the economics, politics, and society, but also a dramatic change in the traditional Chinese folk culture. Moreover, with the development of our urbanization, this change will experience a more severe shock.When the cultural space of the traditional folk custom transforms from the rural society to the modern city, the changes of the folk culture also begin. As a long-standing tradition of the folk customs, Wu Long (Dragon Dance) appears in both rural and urban festival cultural space all over the country. Wu Long (Dragon Dance) could be regarded as one of the folk cultures which possess the abundant connotations. It contains folk beliefs, folk festivals, folk arts, folk social organization systems, folklores and many other folk cultural elements. What’s more, it is not only a cultural complex of our traditional folk culture, but also a expressive pattern and a cultural symbol of China’s " dragon " culture. Therefore, Wu Long (Dragon Dance) taken as the research object of the changes of folk culture is representative and universal.In this paper, the research area is the super city of Wuhan, in Hubeiprovince in central China. We choose three villages in different stages in the urbanization process of the city’s natural as the investigation points. They are the villages inside the city called Chenjiawan which is located in Hongshanqu, the removed village called Lijiadi located in Hanyangqu,and the removed new urban community called Jiangxinyuan located in Hanyang.Dancing Gao Long for Spring Festival is a common folk traditional activity in all three villages.Besides,it’s also a stated-level intangible cultural heritage.Puting Gao Long folk dancing in the urbanization of three phased significance cultural space,gives the particularity and typicality to the object of study.This text includes introduction, body and conclusion, and the text consists of six chapters.The first chapter makes the macro-research to the folk custom changes, clarifies the dialectical relation of urbanization and folk culture under the background of urbanization development and classifies the research experience of foreign folk changes and the domestic related research results.To aim at the problens in folk culture in China as the main body of the intangible cultural heritage protection work,it puts forward the ideas in caring for productive protection and protective development.The second chapter puts the research vision on the folk of dragon dance, goes through some local folklore and historical literature,then does a research about the road of culture change of dragon dance from the official to the folk on culture subject, from a single to diversity on culture form, from amusing god to mass entertainment on cultural functions from the time and spatial dimension.Chapter three, chapter fourand chapter five on the structure are parallel sections, and they are the three case studies of Gao Long folk dance of Chenjiawan, Lijiadi, JiangXinyuan that the cultural communities in different urbanization stages of development. According to research of the fieldwork data, local history and the oral history, it depicts in pictures combined description code the living conditions of folk culture in the village in the city of urbanization,in the village of demolition and the modern urban community. Each chapter’s first quarter describs the cultural context of survey spots, and the second quarter reproduces the three dragon dance with abundant description, and the third section is theoretical thinking.Firstly the author analyzes the heritage status, problems and development direction of the three different forms of folk culture, then discusses the stage characteristics of context in urbanization of folk culture change. In specific discourse, the paper uses sociological research methods, makes random sampling questionnaire method and quantitative analysis by SPSS software,and then makes a strategic analyses to the three community folk culture resources use for reference SWOT analytic method.The last chapter is conclusion looking forward to the future. Based on the three cases of writing ethnography,this chapter compares the similarities and differences between the folk custom culture, introducing six kinds of cultural elements which effects folk culture vicissitude:the memory from owners of culture, the power of administrative intervention, the clansman cohesion, the cultural elite influential, external communication and community productivity.Depicting the folk culture situation maps by different power, the writer interpretates them from the perspective of cultural transformation.Although the village will eventually be the city through the development of several stages, the changes in folk culture is not a one-way situation, it will show different tendencies with the changing of cultural factors. In other words, cultural changes are controllable, which makes the folk culture protection production and protective exploitation become feasible measures. The paper gives some suggestions to how to inherit and protect the folk culture.