The Field Survey And Research Of Yellow Mud Drum-dance Of Jinxiu Aoyao County Of Guangxi

Yellow mud drum-dance is one kind of long drum dance of Yao nationality, which is popular in Sixlane township, Jinxiu Yao nationality autonomous county and Ao yao area, Luoxiang township. Yellow mud is composed by "female drum" and "male dru m", female drum is short and wide while male drum is thin and long. The male drum s urface needs to be covered by yellow mud with proper stickiness and humidity, so it ca n control drum noise and increase drum thickness, then the sound is clear and circling when beat the drum and the sound can be heard from miles away. Starting from the lite rature record about Yellow mud drum dance in 《Ling Wai Dai Da》 written by Zhouqu F ei from Song Dynasty, Yellow mud drum dance has through almost one thousand of yea rs’ history, but its dance form almost did not change, Aoyao folk dance culture circulates from generation to generation consciously. Even today the style of both Yellow mud ma le and female drum is still primitive and dance movement is still simple from remote A oyao area which has few contact with the outside, it kept original, primitive, and rough artistic style of folk dance which has significant research value. But with rapidly develop ment of society and multicultural coexistence, the existence of Yellow mud drum dance will face serious challenge.This article make a deep research on Yellow Mud drum-dance of Jinxiu Aoyao Cou nty of Guangxi by literature collection research and field survey. The introduction mainly pay attention on topic origin, summary of research topic, purpose of research significanc e, research method and characteristics. The first chapter mainly investigate and analyse a bout the natural ecological environment and humanistic Environment; The second chapter made a historical generalizing and exploring about the origin, flow and change of Yello w mud drum dance; The third is the most important part, mainly estimate on the basic f ormation and typical characteristic with the guide of theory and method extracted from Dance ecology characteristics, making analysis and interpretation about it with the combi nation of the special ecological environment that influenced its shaping, Mining and anal ysis about the deep meaning and aesthetic characteristics that under its dance form; The fourth chapter made a developing research about the cultural connotation and cultural fun ction of Yellow mud drum dance with the incorporation of anthropology theory and mad e a further analysis and argument about its cultural characteristics starting from knowledg e-sociology perspective. It can provides people with essential help and view angle to hav e a further understanding about Yellow mud drum dance and circulate, protect, develop f olk dance of Yao Nationality.