Shanxi Operas Cultural Geography

Shanxi is located in the highlands of the Yellow River Basin, which is one of the origins of the Chinese opera. It has last millennium with a history of rise and decline. The opera is not only embodying the local culture, but also a sign of the geographical environmental factor. It can not leave without the pregnant and nourish of the geographical environment, and Corrupting influence on the influence of culture of region on the political geography. Culture of the type of drama of Shanxi opera and natural geographical environment of mountains and rivers of outward show and inner thoughts ", deepen Three Jins culture, strong folk song homeland, factors such as the dialects, and all forge "deep emotion" on the Jin Dynasty dialect. Thus make the type of drama of Shanxi opera abundant, (the location ranks the top in the whole country, up to more than 50 kinds), the region difference is distinct. It reflects the variety, the most distinct, and the integrality of type of Shanxi operas.This text regards time as the line for development of type of drama in Shanxi, which regarded space as " the aspect " with the type of Shanxi operas. Time choose 3 time points as the tie of connection of space, and aspect mean, include opera operatic tunes, tone opera important and basic element in space position, space key element and development form. And the space is the home where the type of drama of opera survives; it is the opera that studies the noumenonn of coming back, leave the true colours best way on the opera.Shanxi operas mainly including several contents as following: 1, Distribution of the type of drama of Shanxi opera; 2, Distribution of the culture area of type of drama of Shanxi opera; 3, Space distribution of physical geography of Shanxi and type of drama of opera; 4, Space distribution of the dialect of Shanxi and type of drama of opera; 5,Space distribution of the population in Shanxi and type of drama of opera; 6, Space distribution of the religion of Shanxi and type of drama of Shanxi opera.The first part describes the classification on culture geography of the type of drama of Shanxi opera, explaining the geographical characteristic of culture of the type of drama of Shanxi opera. Type of drama of Shanxi opera is the embodiment of the geographical element, the name of the type of drama demonstrates stronger regional characteristics.Part two describe the culture area of drama types formed under the geographical environment of drama types of Shanxi opera. Because the opera are local opera, it is the reflection of the culture of region.Is it main researches on the background of culture area's forming? How about distributing? How is the characteristic? How is culture diffusion way? How is the interdynamic, exchange, competition between cultures of type of drama of various operas? How is the relation between culture of key district and edge culture? How is the integration between native opera culture, between native country and outside opera culture? Announce opera culture combines integration that is the opera culture, course of clearing up of new student and opera culture of opera culture; it is the conversion of the position of the culture and so on.Part three describe the impact on type of drama of Shanxi of natural geographical environment of Shanxi: including terrain, climate, geographical and natural conditions for the formation of opera, streaming cloth, and the development of relations? How is the impact on tone of types of drama, artistic style of operatic tunes, and opera art of topographical ground form and so on?Part four explain a view emphatically: The natural geographical environment of Shanxi "mountains and rivers of outward show and inner thoughts " has offered the characteristic with distinct difference of region for forming of the language of the Jin Dynasty. Geographical environment has been formed variedly in Mandarin and dialect system of Shanxi that the language forms of the Jin Dynasty of Central Plains. And the language is the dialect with representative, model the Jin Dynasty. The dialect of Shanxi is mainly shown as the pattern of the heterogeneous and simple distribution, have offered the abundant harmonious sounds, operatic tunes kind for abundance, variety of the type of drama of Shanxi opera;Part five Describe around the relation between the change of the past dynasties population of Shanxi and type of drama of opera, people are natural persons too, opera culture was created in particular geographical environment by the people too. Therefore the change of the population in Shanxi is one of the reasons for the influencing on the type of Shanxi opera. How is the spread route of the type of drama of opera? In the period of Ming and Qing, what is the relation of immigrants, the trader activity of the Jin Dynasty and the forming of types of drama and so on?Part six discuss the religious impact on types of Shanxi opera. The influence of Religions such as Confucianism Buddhism on it is widening, lasting and largeing. As the opera maneuver of people's cultural life must be influenced by religion too. The religion in Liubu of Shanxi, relations between the religion and types of drama are the content this chapter described.History in which the type of drama of Shanxi opera has already passed by more than 1500 years so far since Song Dynasty, its influence is in important status in China too. Today, existence of the Shanxi opera and development space have already become very narrow and small, the Shanxi opera enters a low ebb period, is being squeezed by other culture gradually, fall low for the condition of the culture of edge. Pass with geographical culture case study and analysis to type of drama of Shanxi opera, thus announce the regularity that the culture of studying the type of drama of Shanxi opera emphatically in culture geography of Shanxi is distributed, can make us realize Shanxi opera as an" living " culture , the reason of the rise and decline of it: On one hand are the influence of pluralistic, changes of the society,etc; On the other hand, it is mainly restricted and determined by the geographical environmental. Only opera culture, natural ecology and humane ecology form a cultural ecological environment together, there can be a lasting prosperity in the opera culture. This text tries to study the traditional cultural heritage of types of drama of Shanxi in terms of geography of culture, constructing a new research way or mode, offering a new visual angle and thinking coordinate for researching the train of history development of Shanxi opera.