A Restricted View On Li Jinhui Singing And Dancing Activities From Shun Pao And The Peiyang Pictorial News

It is life ideal and belief of Li Jinhui to realize "civilian music". The Li singing and dancing activities had an inestimable influence under the specific social background.There were a lot report about the singing and dancing activities of Li Jinhui in Shun Pao and The Peiyang Pictorial News during the Republic of China. With the standpoint of the rare historical materials, combined with the special times background in the Republic of China and the personal experience of Li Jinhui, the author takes advantage of methods such as literature research method, case study method and statistics etc., in order to catch a glimpse of Li Jinhui singing and dancing activities from the materials.In this paper, the main frame has four parts:firstly, discuss the development of Shun Pao, The Peiyang Pictorial News and Li’s singing and dancing activities under the economical social background during the period of Republic of China; in addition, catch a glimpse of the guarantee about the singing and dancing activities quality; besides, catch a glimpse of the singing and dancing activities from the various advertisements of show in the two kinds of newspaper; finally, catch a glimpse of the singing and dancing activities from the dramatic criticism in these two newspaper. As the man of music world in the Republic of China, his musical activities brought a great influence to the development of social musical culture under the specific time and culture background. Why his show is so popular and spread quickly, is related to the social environment at that time. Therefore, it is beneficial for us to do further research of the musical culture in modern times from the research of Li’s show in the reports of the two big newspaper of great influence.The author hopes to reveal the developing of culture inside by this research, explore the effects of media such as newspaper on the singing and dancing art of Li Jinhui; enrich and deepen the existing research achievements and relative knowledge about Li Jinhui, and then form a certain systemic basis of historical materials.