Sociological Analysis Of Shadow Puppetry Cultural Reconstruction

Luanzhou shadow puppetry,as an art form of folk culture,bears the living habbit and emotional memories of Luanzhou people.Due to the changes of time and culture,the development of people's livelihood,spiritual ballast and cultural recognition,Luanzhou shadow puppetry,as the symbol of people's cultural memory and recognition,is gradually declining and disappearing from people's sight.It represents the collective cultural-frustration and structural historic-frustration in the cultural memories of social community.However,since Luanxian,a city with opulent cultural deposits has started the reconstruction program of ancient city,which includes the reconstruction of architecture,culture and etc,it gives a priority of the cultural reconstruction of Luanzhou shadow puppetry.Thus,Luanzhou shadow puppetry culture has been waken up and recognized,understood and also favored by more and more people.By instructing Luanzhou shadow puppetry culture remains its folk art in this modern society full of materialism,Luanzhou people are enjoying both the art grace and intrinsic value of Luanzhou shadow puppetry culture.From the theoretical perspective of sociology,choosing the reconstruction of Luanzhou ancient city as the background,with the methods of field visit and documentary,the thesis goes from Luanzhou shadow puppetry,the most symbolic folk culture to analyze the existing problems,the process of its reconstruction and also its value.In this way,by instructing people to get to know and pay attention to the cultural value of Luanzhou shadow puppetry,it will provide new ideas to protect and inherit this culture.The thesis consists of five parts.Part one is the introduction,which shows the background and meanings for doing this research.As a main branch of Chinese shadow puppetry,Luanzhou shadow puppetry originates from Luanxian of Hebei province and represents north China's puppetry.It is not only an art of folks culture,but also a carrier of Luanzhou people's living habits and emotional memories.Luanzhou shadow puppetry,as the most representative local-cultural signal,has been paid massive attention to its reconstruction,and also reviews the research situation at home and abroad wth some related notions being defined,and points out the innovation ang deficiency of the paper,The creative part of this thesis is that it does not only regard Luanzhou shadow puppetry as a branch of art field and analyze its music,art,and beauty statically,but also put it in the whole social environment to analyze Luanzhou shadow puppetry' cultural reconstruction with the perspective of sociology,to provide new thinkings for the reserve,inheritance and development of China's traditional cultures.The deficiencies of thesis are some information materials about the government are not from first hand,and there's limited ways to refer first-hand materials from abroad and originals.The ideas of this thesis are space and time limited.Thus,it can fully illustrate the practical meanings of Luanzhou ancient city's reconstruction to Luanzhou shadow puppetry's reframe.With the further development of Luanzhou ancient city's reconstruction and its tourism,the thesis can only be regarded as a periodic research which should be continued in the future;Part two mainly introduces the theory basis by cultural functionalism,collective memorial theory and cultural change theory.The thesis is formed by both site research and document research methods.part three illustrates the changes of Luanzhou shadow puppetry culture,which includes its origin and developing process,and its existing problems,which is described in details from four ways:the paradox between shadow puppetry' conventional art form and modern times,the shadow puppetry itself,the inheritors and its audience.Part four gives a introduction about Luanzhou ancient city reconstruction for the cultural structure of shadow puppetry from the perspective of sociology.It mainly introduces the reason of Luanzhou ancient city's reconstruction,the city rap factors in the process of reconstruction and the contribution of Luanzhou shadow puppetry culture's reframe by the government,the academics and the public from the perspective of collective memory.It shows the massive practical meaning of Luanzhou shadow puppetry culture's reframe from the perspective of cultural functionalism,which are the reforming development meeting the time's needs,and the new times teaching spirit of it.Part five is consiosion.As a consiosion of this articul the research content of this article has a carried on the further summarized.