The Study On Communication And Development Of DaoQing Shadow Play Of Huan County

Huan county is located in the farming-pastoral zone of the North China, where the wind is wild and the soil is poor because of the irregular seasons and the frequent disasters. People have been suffering with poverty for thousands of years. However, with unique folk art characteristics and its strong vitality, the Huan County Taoism shadow plays have been animating for hundreds of years among the high mountains and the lofty hills of Longdong, which is also called "Daoqing longdong". Daoqing shadow plays had experienced the initiation period before the80s of the last century. During the80s of the last century, it met the deepening development of the plays. In the end of the last century, the plays received the period flourishing, and the comprehensive development after the21st Century. Nevertheless, it has become an indisputable fact that the plays are confronted with gradually decline nowadays.The object of the study is Shi Jiaban which is one of the four local shadow play troupes.The author takes advantages of the literature analysis, field survey and case interviews (oral interviews) on the transmission spectrum of a class of four generations of artists to make in-depth investigation and analysis. How does this magnificent folk art survive on such poor and small plot of land in the northwest of China? Why do the locals choose such an art form? Which methods do they use among the artists to guarantee the safety of the inhabitation? What are the survival circumstances of the Huan County shadow? What are the statuses of the development, the inheritance and the protection work of Daoqing shadow play which is listed as one of the world intangible cultural heritages? And are there any effects after so many measures are taken on the plays?With the development of science and technology, it appears the alternative forms of culture and the out stock of heritage people, and Daoqing shadow play is facing with the edge of extinction. This paper attempts to analyze the historical reasons of Daoqing shadow play by case analysis of Shi Jiaban. In addition, the reasons of the decline of the play will be detailed analyzed.In addition to the introduction and the conclusion, the thesis is divided into five chapters:the first chapter introduces the local history, cultural and geographical environment of the play, tries to find the survival space and the historical background of the Huan County shadow, and also to explain the author’s writing standpoint. With origin and development be analyzed from the historical prospect, the survival circumstances of the Daoqing shadow play will be analyzed in the second chapter. In the third chapter, with Shi Jiaban which has one hundred years history as the study object, it will fully record the inheritance process of the play during four generations of artists. In chapter four, the communication status of Daoqing shadow will be analyzed by using theory and method of the journalism and communication. In chapter five, the author will analyse the reasons of decline of the play, and studies the intrinsic and extrinsic factors for its sustainable development, hoping to provide methods for the problem.