The Hidden Liangzi

Liangzishu,is also known as Jianchang drum,and it is one of the important folk rap arts in western Liaoning region.Liangzishu originated in Qianlong period of the early Qing dynasty,and it has been 200 years from now on.It mainly distributed in more than 20 villages and towns in Huludao's Jianchang country,such as Leijiadian,Suzhuyingzi and so on.It was identified as non-material cultural heritage list of Liaoning province.The actors of Liangzishu are illiteracy and blindness people who are called as “double blind artist”,and they are too poor to learn it from the masters.The inheritance of skill mainly depends on oral instruction and rote memory.Highly skilled artists can perform individually in civil society.They serve for civil “yuantai” and “huitai”.As a form of oral inheritance,Liangzishu has been always in changed at tracks,contents and performing forms.It is instantaneously and creatively.The actors must have “shuici”,they need to recombine the familiar scenes to realize the re-creation of concrete performance according to the different demands and subjects.From the Republic of China to the early liberation days,the development of Liangzishu has been great prosperity.The sluggish rural culture of Jianchang has been active and abundant because of the group of “double blind artist”.Nowadays,Liangzishu has inherited to fifth generation,and performers are also inheritors.“Double blind artists” have been realized the transform of life surroundings and the sublimation of personal value from performing Liangzishu.This paper regards Liangzishu as investigation object,and bases on the theory of Investigation experience of the field,Folklore,Folk literature,Sociology and Anthropology.Pay close attention to “double blind artist”,this special group of “storytelling artists”.It has analyzed the patterns factors of “huokou”,summarized Liangzishu's construction manner and principle with the oral formulaic theory.It has presented the specific process of how the storytelling artists creating the Liangzishu.This paper has three parts of introduction,main body of three chapters and epilogue.It has five chapters in all.The introduction has introduced research significance,research status and research methods.Chapter One has introduced Liangzishu's history.It depended on the background of west of Liaoning province's nature and historic culture.It dated from the five stages of Liangzishu's production and development.The second chapter introduces a concrete Liangzishu performance containing the storytellers,storytelling instruments,melodies,basic performance form,performance scene,points out that the Liangzishu can create in the performance.The third chapter introduces the stylized definition of Liangzi,summarize the construction strategy of Liangzishu.In the conclusion part,generalize and summarize the purpose of the thesis and the writing conception.