The Connotation And Value Change Of The Rice-culture Of The Folk Songs And Dances In Longsheng Zhuang-dong Groups

Longsheng is a agriculral country .The Zhuang-dong groups who live in this area plant rice to support themselves generation after genration. It's typical rice-culture . This paper makes a survey of folk songs and dances in Longsheng Zhuang-dong groups .Pobes the connotation of the culture of the rice and discusses the value changes of their traditional songs and dances with the society alteration.The culture and its environment are not independent .Longsheng Zhuang-dong people mainly live and grow rice near the mountains area, so its culture of rice well integrated with the mountainous environment of Longsheng. Comparing with the Jiangnan rice-culture ,it is unique value and links the mountainous environment .All this forming the rice-culture of mountainous area .And their folk songs and dances are growing in this atmosphere.The folk songs have a close connection with the agricultural culture .The Zhuang-dong people who work on the field for many years have an ardent love for singing songs. Singing is a important thing in their society .Songs and rice means the spiritual culture and the materical culture .Living fed by rice but songs keeps their people all in good mood. The folk songs of the Zhuang nationality and Dong nationality in Longsheng shows the work that they plant rice and their everyday life ,so it's art style is endowed with connotation of the rice-culture .In addition the custom of singing form their character and thinking method.Longsheng Zhuang-dong people is skilled in singing but is not good at dancing. There is a few folk dances in this area. But this dances are the product of the rice-culture society and show their work and life on their field ,so its art style is full of rice-culture's aesthetic connotation .Whih the developing of the society, The traditional folk songs and dances of Longsheng Zhaung-dong nationality experience the process of development that from sacred world to mortal world. Today their people are undergoing hardships about the change of traditional folk art. In 1990s ,when the culturechange drive people's change of thought, their folk songs and dances have new culture value .The new value lead to their folk songs and dances become a kind of art-form. It is a new way that make their folk songs and dances grow continually.