The Influence Of "the Invention Of Traditional Festivals" On Dance

The traditional dance “Dengwoluo”which originated from Achang and prevailed in Lianghe is one of the main mediums carrying the ethnic culture, embodying the rich history, religious beliefs and customs, reflecting the nation's aesthetic idea. In the early 80 s, the lianghe Achang named one day as the “Woluo's Day”. And then in the early 90 s, the local government combined Lianghe's “Woluo's Day” and Longchuan's “Alu's Day” as a new festival-“Aluwoluo's Day”. The productions of “Woluo's Day and “Alu's Day” not only brought more spaces for the inheritance and the spread of national dances, but also changed the dances in terms of their forms, methods and music to some extents. Based on the “Traditional Invention Theory” raised by the British anthropologist Eric Hobsbawm, using the study methods of dance ecology, this article mainly explores the changes of the dance “dengwoluo” with the process of inventing and combining Achang's traditional festivals. To reveal the innovation's impact and significance of "traditional festival" on folk dance, following the timeline of how the festival was invented and integrated, this paper explores the transitions of the dance “Dengluowo” as the demands of festivals changed longitudinally,cogitates and analyses the configurations and characters of dance movements, and further more consideres retrospectively the development problem of Dengluowo of Achang ethnic in Langhe County. This paper contains the Introduction and other four parts.The introduction,presents the basic concepts, the reason for topic selection, the aim and meaning of this research,the review of related researches and methods used in this paper.The first part will firstly give an overview of current types of “Dengwoluo” and its main application environment. Then analyze traditional dances' originals, primitive methods, characteristics of dances, and their cultural connotations. The types and features of new dances which were invented in different periods will be shown clearly through exploring various traditional dance models, and this part will lay the foundation of comparing different dances' forms longitudinally.In the second part, the process of raising and developing “Woluo's Day” and the changes of “Dengwoluo”will be referred to. Furthermore, we will analyze the traditional forms of dances under the influences of festival cultures and the characteristics of the new dances forms under the national aesthetic tastes. At the end of this part, the meaning of inventing “Woluo's Day” and the influences brought by inventing festivals will be summed up.The third part is the research about dance in A Luo Woluo Festival and other festival cultures. Firstly, analyze the factors of festival transformation and describe festival text meticulously. Then expound traditional dancing style at that time and emerge new configuration and form Tic den under the outside forces. And takeing this as the basis, investigate the influence of festival transformation to the development and protection of Lianghe Tic den.The forth part, from macroscopic angle, analyze the connection between invention of traditional festival and development of Tic den. Through the discussion, this part investigates the invention which is good for the development of folk dance and the spread of national culture. Then, this part rethinks about current situation of Lianghe Tic den and gives suggestions about problems of inheritance and development of folk dance.