Research On The Changes Of Yixing Folk Dance "Men Huan And Female Joy"

Exorcism culture is a folk culture centered on exorcism and disaster relief,with rich cultural connotation,such as totem worship,Wicca worship,ghost worship and reproductive worship.Exorcism dance is an important part of exorcism culture,through masks,dance moves to greet and worship gods,exorcise ghost,in order to obtain the blessings from gods.For a long time,exorcism culture has greatly influenced the traditional rural society and people's thoughts,life and production through its function of communication with gods.In this paper,Yixing Nan Huan Nv Xi,a rare exorcism cultural heritage in south China,is studied.The motivation and social significance are mainly explained through the changes of attachment space,symbolic symbols,functions and inheritance pattern of dance.The first chapter of this paper is about the related theories and the researches of summary.It expounds the transition of Nan Huan Nv Xi by theoretical basis of folklore,anthropology and ritual theory of sociology,symbolic symbol theory and functionalism theory.The literature review focuses on two aspects of exorcism culture and Nan Huan Nv Xi,which lays the foundation for the transition,causes and social meaning of dance.And it provides references for the analysis.The second chapter focuses on the living environment and development of dance.Special geographical and cultural environment gave birth to the local culture.With the development of the times,the dance shows different cultural characteristics.The perspectives of the third chapter are attachment space,symbolic symbol,function and inheritance pattern of dance,and dig deeply the artistic features of dance transition.The fourth chapter focuses on the explanation of motivation and social meaning,including the development of human beings themselves,the disappearance of original cultural space,the adjustment of economic structure and the orientation of government policy.On this basis,the author discusses in depth the relationship between mankind with gods and its transition,the complex changes of traditional rural social structure power,then rise to social effective governance and reflect the transition of social administration.Represented by exorcism dance,exorcism culture and its transition vividly show the appearance of people's lifestyle,production activities during the long history of China.It opens a window to traditional culture for people.The intangible cultural heritage has been branded by the times,the part which is hard to adapt to the times being eliminated,the part which conforms to the times being innovated.During the process,self-identity is strengthened.As a local intangible cultural heritage,Nan Huan Nv Xi is playing and will be playing for a long time a role of promoting cultural identity and cultural diversity.It turns cultural identity into cohesion for the effective social governance,harmonious,orderly and stable social development.