The Intervention Of The Nanyang Area Drama In The Wedding And Funeral Ceremony

Since Nanyang is one of the originating and prevalent places of Qu Opera,the performances of most operas in Nanyang are combined with activities in daily life,which is especially typical in wedding and funeral rituals.Instead of purely being art activities,the Qu Opera combined with rituals shall be regarded as a kind of social behavior because the performance of Qu Opera in ritual influences and changes local people's behavior pattern as well as cultural characteristics.The performance of Nanyang Qu Opera in such rituals influences and changes local people's behavior pattern as well as cultural characteristics.It is necessary to research Nanyang Qu Opera by integrating into local rituals.Current researches on Nanyang Qu Opera mostly start with art perspective,which means that,the research on Qu Opera in viewpoint of performance studies is totally in vacancy;performance studies emphasizes art performance behavioral intervention into people's life.For this reason,to research the influence of Nanyang Qu Opera on local people's life can generalize performance studies to the art performance and daily life closely related to Chinese people.This research firstly observes opera troupe and audiences in Nanyang;records performance approaches and process;understands the survival situation of Qu Opera in local.More than these wedding and funeral rituals,the key point of this research is the influence of Qu Opera on local people,family,culture and society.On this basis,when dating back to ancient Greek Theatre,it shows that,opera had strongly intervened into life and cultural construction at the beginning of origin;contemporary ritual theatre of Ndembu provides possibilities to the understanding of different cultures,where Nanyang Qu Opera,Greek Theatre and ritual Theatre of Ndembu all explain that,theatre's intervention into life has never been an isolated case..