Research On Inheritance And Dissemination Of Shouning Beilu Operas Of Fujian Province

The Beilu opera discussed in this paper is a category of ancient and local operas that are prevalent in Shouning County of Fujian Province and popular in eastern Fujian Province, which was included on the list of the first national intangible cultural heritages in June of2006. At present, the Beilu Opera Troupe in Shouning County of Fujian Province is one of crucial carriers for inheriting Beilu operas. When it was just founded, the troupe kept on sorting out old operas and created new ones, which ever flourished. Nevertheless, traditional performance market becomes sluggish, and both inheritors and audience tend to be aging population for Beilu Operas that have developed under the background of agricultural civilization with the quickened pace of modernization and the rapid intervention of diversified cultures, so there is an urgent need to pay attention to such local operas.All cultures emerge and develop through inheritance and dissemination within crisscrossed three-dimensional space. Without communication, Beilu operas will become arts to be kept in museums forever. Under a new dissemination context, changes are occurring to dissemination methods dependent upon which these operas survive. How to expand dissemination methods and promote popularized dissemination by taking advantage of the convenience brought by the new dissemination context has become a topic of great realistic significance for inheriting and developing such operas.In this paper, current inheritance and development of Taining Beilu operas as well as its major dissemination methods are primarily analyzed and discussed by literature analysis, field survey and questionnaire survey. In terms of the outline, this paper is divided into five parts for interpretation apart from the Introduction and the Conclusion. In Part1, the background and historical situation of Shouning Beilu operas are introduced. Part2mainly analyzes the music ontology of Shouning Beilu operas in combination with scores. In Part3, a field survey is conducted for current inheritance of Shouning Beilu operas and main factors affecting the inheritance are analyzed. Part4focuses on discussing three major ways for disseminating Shouning Beilu operas, including ontology dissemination, media dissemination and dissemination of intangible cultural heritages. In Part5, the author mainly proposes the considerations and beneficial suggestions from the perspective of inheriting and disseminating Beilu operas, in hope that this paper may enable readers to acquire a complete and objective understanding of such local operas and thus attach importance to them, for the purpose of providing some references for future research on this topic.