Storytelling,Text And Performance

Lingchuan storytelling is closely related with people's lives.This folk art form has a particularly long and deep spread in Lingchuan.In Lingchuan,whether weddings and funerals,pray and worship or slack entertainment,the local people always invite artists to talk stories.Artists using dialect to talk stories,including the history of the rise,marriage and family,witty person and things.The stories,cover and contain everything,have a vivid and tortuous plot and a living contents,and is deeply loved by people.This paper makes a comprehensive investigation on Lingchuan storytelling,including the storytelling status,the interaction of storytelling and custom,rap text performances and the storyteller's marriage,family life history and memory contents.The paper find the interaction between the folk artists and life for exploring its internal features,rather than stay in the surface of the folk art record and bibliographic text collection.This paper is divided into four chapters.The introduction part expounds the purpose and significance of the topic,home and abroad research status,research methods,terminology definition,which is the background of the thesis.The first chapter arranges the historical features and inheriting of Lingchuan storytelling.The blind folk art team archives data are stated,which can see that the development of the blind folk art team history and strict management system.The second chapter discusses the interaction of Lingchuan storytelling and the local custom of life.They coexist and depend on each other.Through taking part in and watching the festive book in festive activities,anniversary book in funeral activities and lord book in worship lord,it is found that multiple social relationship are building in the interaction between storytelling and custom of life.The storytelling in the custom activity have the sense of ritual,instrumental,entertainment,as well as the significance of spiritual comfort.The process performance and significance of storytelling are mainly analyzed.The third chapter mainly discusses the book word and performing text.The research method can study through them.According to interview and take part in the live performances of storytellers,performances of the existing text book words are analyzed.The secret of long book memory for the blind artist are discussed,pointing out that the performance time and audience are the important factors restricting the rap performance.The fourth chapter focuses on life history and social memory of storytellers.Combined with the method of oral history,the daily life situations of the blind artist are showed,including the suffering of memory,a study memory and literary ideal.Comparison of old and new generations of storytellers' life,the situation and evolution of Lingchuan blind artists in social change are outlined.