Three Hundred Years Celebration Ban: On The Function Of The Urban Culture

Actually, San Qing Troupe (It was a Troupe that was invented by people who came from Anhui Province) is a Huabu Opera Troupe( The opera seems vulgar , not so elegent, just as the scholars said.), which often make performances from place to place in the rural and the urban areas of Anqing, Hangzhou, Yangzhou. In 1790, San Qing Troupe went to Capital, Beijing, to congratulate on Qian-Long Empperoe's eighty-year birthday. Going to the capital-Beijing is the historcial chance and turning point not only for the San Qing Troupe, but also to the development of Peking Opera.First, opera troupe, theatre, and entertainers'houses all congregate in the Dashilan (which is in front of Qianmen Market Street in Beijing). The spatial congregation will inevitably lead to the congregating effect of the develoment of culture and arts.Secndly, the culture elements congregate in Capital-Beijing. Among all the elements, the cultural productive elements include theatrcial actors of all places and all tunes, talent scripters, and the accompanists, and so on. They communicate with each other and have conversation frequently, thus bring on creation. The cultrual consumptive elements include many famous government officals and generous businessmen and their guests, Eight Banners Nobility Rank, scholar-bureaucrat, and low and middle citizen classes, etc. Different cultural consumers have different opera appreciation to the troupe, which lead to an extensive cultural tolerance. It make the opera actors to consider all aspects of cultural needs and have creation on the performance arts, which have great stimulate effect on the the development of Peking Opera. Qing rulers, as a special audience , also have a positive infludence on the development of Peking Opera.Tansmitted place-to-place performance in suburban to fixed-point performance in Capital, San Qing Troupe absorbed the advantages of all the tunes, such as Hui Tune, Qin Tune, Kun Tune,and Chu Tune, and gradually made a essential change in the tune. Therefore, the"Xi-pi Er-huang"Tune (Pi Huang Tune ) finally appeared.The happening and development of a certain city's cultrual form were related to one certain period city cultural environment. Different city culture leaded to the subtle difference of cultural form. At the beginning, when San Qing Troupe went to Beijing, the main role in Beijing Operomatic Circle was huadan(the young female role). With the change of political and social environment, it appeared some new programmes that were main on laosheng(aged male role ). After Peking Opera came into being and had a preliminary development, it began to eradiate to Shanghai. As a burgeoning city that was quite different from Beijing, Shanghai's city civilization is full of commercial competition, which, in turn, had an influence on the Beijing Operamatic Circle. Thus, there were distinction between Beijing Opera and Shanghai Peking Opera.In a word, in a particular city cultural space, all kinds of cultural elements congregated, and communicated with each other, which were benefical to the realization of creation, then created a new form of culture. That is the function of city culture.When a certain city culture came into being, it will inevitably eradiate and affect the surrounding cities. Radiation and Anti-radiation is another represent of the function of city culture.