Research On Tujia Minority’s Nuo Opera In West Hunan Based On Semiotics

Nuo is an ancient witch culture,so Nuo opera is full of religious color meanning, which experi enced the development process of evolution from Nuo dance, Nuo festival to Nuo opera. the origin al features of Nuo operahas been preserved completely byXiangxi Tujia minority area. they are no t only the heritage carrier of thousands of years’ Western Nuo cultural,but also the aggregates of div ersified aesthetic factors.The paper regards Xiangxi Tujia Nuo Opera as the research object of sem iotics and according to Semiotics as a starting point,to study Nuo masks, Nuo dance, Nuo songs wh ich has much more in-depth research of representative symbolic of from the Xiangxi Tujia Nuo ope ra symbol system.In order to study the Xiangxi Tujia Nuo opera more deeply, you must be at the b asic of the Western Region Nuo cultural background, avoid to be artificially separated, which is the only way to grasp the essence of research.At the same time, this article also incorporates aesthetic s, anthropology, ethnology and so on, to start the research and analysis from a multidimensional pe rspective interpretation of the cultural significance of Xiangxi Tujia Nuo opera and aesthetic signifi cance.The introduction part,mainly introduces the study focuses on the origin, significance of the top ic, and research status of Xiangxi Tujia Nuo opera.The first chapter introduces the Tujia culture and Xiangxi Tujia Nuo opera.First,making a basi c introduction to the Origin of Tujia and the cultural characteristics of Xiangxi Tujia.Then, having a comprehensive overview from the emergence and development of Tujia Nuo opera, the main con tent of the show, the entire program and ceremony Nuo opera From the emergence and developmen t of Tujia Nuo opera, a plurality of the main aspects of the content of performances, Nuo opera cere mony entire program and the unique characteristics of the Xiangxi Tujia Nuo opera and so on.The second chapter analyzes the symbology of Xiangxi Tujia Nuo opera. This article will divi de Xiangxi Tujia Nuo opera sign symbol system into these three categories.They are Images symbo ls,Physical symbol and Sign language.First of all,Images symbols mainly start with Nuo masks symbol, Nuo opera costumes props symbols,the collocation of different colors, lines and shapes,whic h created a positive,ferociousand secular,three different types of masks;traditional patterns and emb roidery on the dress also has its own characterization of meaning;and the shape and type of props, a lso corresponding to the different meaning of the expression. Secondly,Physical symbol mainly ana lyses Xiangxi Tujia Nuo dance in Nuo Opera,especially several kinds of footwork and hand tactics,such as step Gang, Yu-step, step dance of yin and yang, riding Quartet etc.. It reflects the value of Orientation symbol of Xiangxi Tujia Nuo opera as well as the specific content from these steps and hand tactics.At last,Sign language analyses from the singing style,type and lyrics of Nuo song in Xiangxi Tujia Nuo opera,and then learn that belief space of Xiangxi Tujia people to reconstruct, se cular and sacred complete grafting.The third chapter analyzes the cultural significance of Xiangxi Tujia Nuo opera symbol.This c hapter is divided into two parts, the first part is the analysis of polytheism Xiangxi Tujia people’s co nsciousness and the sorcerer, reflecting the distinctive religious ideas of Tujia people;the second pa rt briefly describes life over ceremony of the Xiangxi Tujia Nuo opera and we can learn the existen ce of the meaning of life affirmation from the Tujia people, which is further discussed in such a cer emony,the living and the dead soul to reach the state of interaction, reached a sense of equality bet ween people.The fourth chapter analyzes the aesthetic significance of Xiangxi Tujia Nuo opera symbol.Ana lysis starts from the entertainment features of whole Xiangxi Tujia Nuo opera as well as the expres sion of aesthetic sense from Xiangxi Tujia people.And then,from the Mysterious Beauty, Ferocious Beauty, the Nature Beauty and Vulgar-ugly Beauty these four parts to give a specific analysis of its aesthetic significance overall.