The Investigation And Research On Taigu’s Ancient Stages

As the carrier of drama performance activities,the ancient stages carry the art form and performance relations of traditional opera,representing various religious customs and folk culture.Their existence and development promote the development of local regional culture and play an important role in the formation and development of Chinese opera art.They are a precious "solid drama culture",promoting the prosperity and development of opera.Taigu county is located in the central part of Shanxi Province.It belongs to Jinzhong basin.In the Ming dynasty,Taigu had a record of merchants being diligent in trade.In the middle of the Q ing dynasty,Taigu commercial development reached its peak.It was known as "dry dock","little Beijing" and "golden taigu",which was the financial and commercial center of Shanxi.The excellent social and geographical environment provides unique conditions for the development of the local opera,making its opera activities extremely active.It retained a large number of theater,and a lot of Jin businessmen invested in the construction of theater.It opened a lot of theater fans ticket club and trained the talent of the opera star,attracting man y famous actors to exchange.It trained a large number of talent for Shanxi opera,promoting the prosperity of local opera activities.Taigu’s ancient stages are the Qing dynasty heritage structure.The prosperous commercial activities and special environment make the number of drama venues and the types of the stage show diversify.Temple stage,temple stage,courtyard and ancestral stage coexist.It has its own characteristics in architectural form.The Stage consists of the hard peak,the rolling roof,the gray ridge tile or the gray ridge tile covering cloth.Generally,it has three-sided view and the width of it is three rooms or more than two rooms.Eaves are mostly round wooden columns,some of them are square sand and stone columns,and most of the m are drum and plain plinth.The stage is divided into front and back stages by partition doors.In order to enhance the internal light of the stage,two windows are mostly set in the background,and in order to play the role of ear to ear,screen walls are mostly set on both sides of the stage.However,with the decline of opera culture,natural disasters,man-made destruction and other reasons,the existing situation of the ancient stage is not optimistic,so it is necessary to study and protect it.As for Taigu county administrative division,this article will be about forty-two ancient stages of six villages,three countrys and three cities: Beiguang village,Yang Yi village,Xiaobai village,Mingxing country,Shuixiu village,Fancun country,Hucun country,Rencun village,White tower district,North city,South city,using the combination of field survey and document literature.Stone steles of literature,historical data,stage words will be analyzed,such as the belief in god,worship and other activities,the club system of record and Taigu county existing ancient stage.In order to reveal the true state of ancient Taigu county stages and rough style,the stage will be placed in the local C hinese operas flourishing business culture under the backgro und of study.It reflects the local social and economic conditions and customs,and makes a small contribution to the protection of Taigu county ancient stage and the prosperity and development of theatrical activities.