| "Embroidering the Small Bag"is a traditional ditty that spreads wide in every area of our country. In the long course of its development, it makes progresses and approaches to perfection day by day through several generations' recreation and improvement. In the boundless ocean of the folk song, " Embroidering the Small Bag" is only a small spray, but as a kind of traditional art form, from the analysis to all such respects as its origin , scale , mode , singing ,etc, we can find the regional , native culture characteristics in China's traditional folk song . Its essence is to vividly reflect people's special feeling and understanding to love affairs at a certain period, and such a unique artistic style that takes shape in specific history, environment and crowd shows its deeper culture contain from the form of aesthetic appreciation. According to statistics, the Han people have nearly one hundred "Embroidering the Small Bag"ditties that own the same name probably spreading in every area of our country, but in so huge a system every artistic style of "Embroidering the Small Bag"differs from one another. First, the content of the libretto is rich and colorful, including expressing the love between men and women, praising life, and describing history, but all center around the literary theme "Embroidering the Small Bag". Second, because geographical environment, dialect, culture, history, custom of every area, etc. are different, the style of the melody is different, reflecting the colorful characteristic in riotous profusion. Third, any folk song must all be spread and exchanged through singing, but traditional singing skills in every area have a strong local characteristic. It makes the singing of "Embroidering the Small Bag"show different styles in different areas. This paper first explains the history , spreading and thorough style characteristics of "Embroidering the Small Bag", and then uses fourteen "Embroidering the Small Bag"that belongs to Shandong province as example to explore further that they have different style characteristics although they belong to the same area and have the same name. In modern society that the trend of globalization develops faster, people's sense of aesthetic appreciation has a great change comparing with the past. "Embroidering the Small Bag"as a traditional art form is certain to be conflicted with certain modern sense of aesthetic appreciation. The paper tries to keep the balance between the traditional sense and the modern sense of aesthetic appreciation in "Embroidering the Small Bag"through two ways: one is the new creation skills and the other one is the ethnic new singing methods. The article is divided into three parts:... |
