Carp Sound The Troupe Survey Report

Having done fieldwork three times at Putian and Xianyou,Fujian province. I described particularly in this paper the history and present situation of the Lisheng troupe, its inner structure, life style of the troupers, the way of its economy operation, and the troupe's characteristic lists of plays and performance forms. By analyzing the existing manners and the inner structures of the Lisheng troupe objectively, I found that so huge influence of economy system on the state troupe, and tried to look into the future of Chinese local opera.