A Study On The Excavation And Collation Of The Intangible Cultural Heritage Of Tongliang Fire Dragon

Intangible cultural heritage is not only the gene of national culture,but also the foundation of the living inheritance of Chinese traditional culture.It is of great significance to protect the cultural heritage of the non-material,to preserve cultural diversity,to stimulate the imagination and creativity of people,to promote the harmony of all citizens and the whole nation.As a microcosm of Tongliang local culture,Tongliang fire dragon is the body exhibition form of Bayu's humanistic characteristics,which condenses the historical memory of Bayu people,and has distinct and unique symbolic significance and regional cultural characteristics.Because of its own unique,regional and active characteristics,in 2006,the Tongliang fire dragon was included in the first list of national non-material cultural heritage,which marked the publication of the bronze-beam fire dragon as the national excellent culture.By consulting the relevant literature and the field survey,the protection,inheritance and development of the fire dragon of the copper beam is only the relevant report and brief introduction to the project,and there is no systematic excavation and arrangement and in-depth study.Based on this study,the historical origin,functional value,skills and utensils of Tongliang fire dragon were excavated and sorted out by using the methods of literature,expert interview,field investigation,questionnaire survey and oral history,and the transfer generation path of the inheritance and development of Tongliang fire dragon was put forward in view of the problems existing in the realistic background of Tongliang fire dragon.The study concluded as follows:(1)Tongliang fire dragon has an inextricable dependency relationship with the She Ba culture of Cuba.(2)The origin and development of Tongliang fire dargon has gone through three stages: myth and legend,the functional evolution from entertaining God to entertaining people,and the formation of cultural brand.With the evolution of history and the development of society,under the influence of natural environment,social environment and human environment,Tongliang fire dragon has unique characteristics,annexation and tolerance,and pluralistic cultural characteristics.(3)Tongliang fire dragon inheritance and development up to now,integrated gymnastics,acrobatics,martial arts,opera and other elements,forming a more complete technical system.Its exhibition process,dragon ball action,basic handle,basic footwork,routine action and production technology all have relatively fixed content forms.(4)At present,there are 6 inheritors of intangible cultural heritage about Tongliang fire dragon,one at the national level,one at the municipal level and four at the district level.From the point of view of its age structure,it shows an aging trend.Among them,Huang Tingyan and Li Shimin made innovations in routine movements and forms of expression in Tongliang fire dragon exhibition,which were in line with the trend of the times,and played a positive role in inheriting,spreading and developing Tongliang fire dragon in the realistic social background.(5)The problems faced by Tongliang fire dragon as an intangible cultural heritage in the inheritance and development are as follows: the government overtakes the centralized management,resulting in the lack of body initiative in the cultural living space;the age structure of the participants is uneven and aging;the cultural level of the participants is low,which leads to the lack of innovative kinetic energy within the project;the inheritance mode is old and solidified and the inheritance path is single and narrow,resulting in faults in reserve talents;the commercial interests drive,leading to the distortion of cultural roots;and the impact of multiculturalism leads to the image concealment of cultural space.(6)In the view of the protection of non-material cultural heritage,the strategy and the path of the inheritance and development of the copper-beam fire dragon are:changing the concept of management,giving full play to the positive guiding role of the government;broadening the way of inheritance,"people,government,enterprises,school" participate together;combine with the development of the times,make use of the "new media" platform(network platform,mobile phone APP,news media,etc.)diversified promotion;changing the advantages of resources,rely on the healthy and sustainable development of the market economy.