The Other Shore, The Spirit Of This Side, Dance

Dance is usually interpreted as the use of human body in time and space on the creative activity of a cultural form. Dance and culture are inseparable, the analysis of folk dance from the relevant cultural context can not be stripped off, and only the dance act to get placed into the context of its interpretation of the meaning of reasonable accuracy.In this paper, Qingjiang River Tujia funeral dancing for the study, will jump into the funeral into a broader cultural context, by examining the vocabulary of dance movements funeral, the musical structure, physical symbols and Qingjiang Tujia of the universe, life and death, values, ethnic identity, historical memory, livelihoods and other aspects of the relationship between the cultural logic, which summed up jump funeral is local ecological environment and geographical conditions, belief systems, rituals, aesthetic and cognitive structure under the conditions created by the dynamic performance of Qingjiang Tujia out of an art style, and to jump at the funeral on the basis of a comprehensive in-depth explanation.The whole chapter consists of four chapters constitute the first set introduction, end with concluding remarks. Introduction of the main topics of this paper to clarify the reason, and research related to this article and article related to research theory and methods. The complete by the beginning of my fieldwork in an instant in the field log into the body, funeral dance-based generation, development and characteristics of the region and its environment without knowledge, so first of selective mourning dance cultural ecology are introduced. Then, from the author at Ssangyong village funeral ceremony at a jump start, jump key describes the ritual of mourning. Jump funeral is the concept of carrying Qingjiang Tujia culture and expression, but also a kind of "jump" the main art form, so papers focus on the jump to discuss the form of mourning. Jump to the main body from the funeral funeral dance music, and finally by the action of quantitative analysis to qualitative analysis of the jump in mourning "jump" awakened in-depth and detailed analysis. Jump mourning as the public loved the art form of dance has its own charm, precisely because of its exposure to the funeral ceremony with funeral ritual makes its special significance, so the significance of the study can not be separated for their scenario analysis, differentcontexts have different meaning expression. Paper placed in funeral ceremonies were to dance and performance scene in the context of comparative analysis, focusing on the jump funeral ritual contexts expression, combined funeral ceremony funeral jump analysis of the structure, jump further context of funeral ceremonies. In addition to the immediate situation funeral dance, they also rely on more ethnic and cultural background, will jump deep mourning placed in the wider context of the culture under a large, for further discussion of distillation to interpret the underlying metaphor behind the jump funeral and has the cultural function.In research methodology, the use of cultural ecology, cultural anthropology, rituals and symbols and other related theories theory. On the one hand the movement vocabulary of dance funeral, dance section, sentence, dance and physical movement pattern and force efficiency and other technical aspects of art forms and a detailed description and analysis, emphasis on folk dance description and context of the overall interpretation. Respectively, in different contexts jump funeral rheological profound symbolic meaning and interpretation reveals, while mourning the jump wider cultural context of place and historical traditions of interpretation. In research methods, I make full use of anthropological participant observation, close to local life, and strive to understand the main theme of the cultural perspective, while the flexibility to use the dual role of observation and participation in mourning for the jump in-depth investigationOverall herein, this combination of a number of theories and methods, its main purpose is to dance in the semantic interpretation of the process, be sure to restore it to its own situation into a big cultural context and depth under the interpretation, so that it can get in line with the main cultural logic interpretation of the meaning of dance.