Heze Traditional Folk Dance Culture

Shangyang Dance is a kind of folk dance popular in Heze region in Shan Dong Province. It plays an important role in tradtional dancing culture . It has great art value in study of the dancing for rain in sacrificing activity. The purpose to research Shangyang Dance lies on: firstly, Studying its origins and development and analyzing its actuality to protect the national non-material cultural heritage; secondly, summarizing its art style and characteristics and enriching its theory and demonstrating the importance in art history; thirdly, promoting the traditional dance to develop in new century.This article adopts the combination of fieldwork, literature search and analytical method. First , searching the trace of Shangyang Dance in historical data and improving the theory of folk dance; Secondly, comprehensively cleaning up and summarizing Shangyang Dance based on the fieldwork and adequately studying the unique art fascination; Lastly, exploring Shangyang Dance' s theoretical value in Chinese ancient and modern history by combining anthropology and folklore.This article is divided into six chapters. The first chapter introduces the research purpose, meaning, method and current situation of the introducing ShangYang dance. The second chapter introduces the origin of ShangYang dance. Emphatically introduces about the origin of ShangYang dance and mythical legend in the literature of historical data. The third chapter introduces investigation of ShangYang dance in the current situation. Nowadays current situation of development of ShangYang dance of recommending and spreading and distributing, and questions such as the development of ShangYang dance activity form, etc. The fourth chapter introduces in style and function of ShangYang dance. Mainly form style and some of the expounding the fact ShangYang dance work up law characteristic, and the function that have from sacrificial and two recreational respect explaining ShangYang dances in different eras, the embodying ShangYang dance has been finished from giving pleasure to the god to the transition which gives pleasure to people. The fifth chapter introduces in the artistic value of ShangYang dance. It have expounded the fact as this old dance kind of ShangYang dance and spread from Yin Shang so far, and the one that kept is so intact. Calling that by the experts and scholars has artistic value which study the old living fossil that offer sacrifices to and pray for rain the dance. The reflecting ShangYang dance is in our country' s art history and important status and meaning of the non-material cultural heritage had in traditional culture fully. The sixth chapter introduces the application and developing in reality of ShangYang dance of the history remains. It have described the current situations of the development of ShangYang dance of the remains and development prospect in Heze prefecture now. Until sheep view of " ShangYang supernatural bird " of dance put forward one' s own view and ShangYang scientific reason that bird appear analyze, combine the knowledge of natural science, objective proposition realizes.