Research On Historical Change Of Family Lion Dance

Folklore is a characterization of the cultural heritage of the nation,but also the temperament of the local culture presented.Folk Sport Culture is formatted and grown in civil society,is the adhesives of rural communities,have unique social significance in maintaining ethnic memory,social stability and promote social integration and so on.To solve these problems,the paper firstly taking an exact Family Lion Dance as a study case,analyzes it from a historical perspective,by using related theories as culture theory,Sociological organization theory and folk sports theory,and also using research methods as documentary,field surveys and in-depth interviews.Then,on this basis,the paper focuses on comprehensive analysis of historical changes of Family Lion Dance.Finally,the paper provides some advices on how to develop folk sports by taking culture changes of Family Lion Dance for reference.Family Lion Dance has intricate culture attributes and rich connotations.First,Family Lion Dance is a kind of folk activity used on activities as worship mythical creatures,ancestors respect and celebration of holidays.Second,Family Lion Dance is also a kind of family group activity such as worship ceremony and celebration of Spring Festival.Last but not least,Family Lion Dance is a concrete form of physical sports.The Zhu's Lion Dance,deeply influenced by Huxiang Culture and Meishan Culture,is still exist,although it has gone through all the vicissitudes.However,its overall decline is inevitable,due to the social transition.Historical changes of Family Lion Dance are mainly reflected changes in performers,audience,time and space.Changes in these factors reflected the social changes.Historical Changes of Family Lion Dance is restricted by external environments.Political ideology decides whether Family Lion Dance is legal or not;transformation of the production and life-style caused by transition of economic structure directly leads to the organizational reduction in Family Lion Dance.Family Lion Dance is under the threat of being replaced by modern cultural and recreation activities.Family Lion Dance can satisfy individual's requirements.Inner-family Lion Dance can satisfy requirement for safety and affiliation;village-Lion Dance can satisfy requirement for contact;Dragon-Lion Association can satisfy more requirements.However,the sustainable operation of Family Lion Dance is promoted not by sole requirement-satisfying but some kind of consensus.Folk sports culture can reconstruct social relations of rural society,and its changes can reflect the conversion of rural social power.Cultural change is a historical process and dialectical development.Once culture transition occurs,we should hold an optimistic attitude.Development of folk culture in the new period needs social cooperation among government,society and folk elites.With mass supports on policy and capital from government,cultural education and social donations from the society,and folk elites' enthusiasm and orderly organization,Family Lion Dance will be more and more prosperous.Value judgments of folk sports should be to meet the needs of people;we should understand the development law of folk sport and choose a suitable development model.As the same time,we also should protect cultural Inheritors of folk sports and play their lead role in activities to ensure the effective implementation.