The Prosperity And Decline Of Folk Art And The Village Public Life

The issue of public life has always been at the brim of rural study. With theaccelerating process of the rural city, rural life has changed a lot, but, theimprovement of material didn’t drive the advance of cultural life. While, micro villagepublic life has become the facts that academic circles have to pay more attention.Village, is a relatively closed space, living in this space for a long time, peoplehave created their own culture, just like folk art. To a large extent, as a kind ofcollective entertainment the folk art reflects the collective spirit and culture of avillage. As a symbol folk arts of Liulin, the prosperity and decline of flower-drumimpact on local public life directly. In the years, when entertainment resources areextremely deficient, Liulin flower-drum was the only form of entertainment. As longas villager in slack season they would gather to learn the flower-drum, almosteveryone, passed on from generation to generation, and the performances were heldduring the holidays grandly per annum, which construct the intimate public life. Butthe Cultural Revolution shortly after founding a state and the market economicdevelopment, people lost the time and opportunity to gather. The villagers have tofollow the pace of the economy selfishly. As a kind of pure entertainment,flower-drum will spend a lot of time and energy, the performance need fourteenpeople, which gradually further apart from the speeding up of life rhythm. The lack ofstaff and economic pressures lead flower-drum gradually declined, in the late ninety’sand early twenty-first Century it had disappeared. Fortunately, coincides with theprotection of intangible cultural tide, when flower-drum in the dying of the edge.Liulin flower-drum in gradually restored with the efforts of government, the culturalidentity has been enhanced through the recovery of flower-drum. As an entertainmentof the community which united all the villagers, the prosperity and decline of Liulinflower-drum influences the public life directly.