Survey Research On Folk Dance And Song Of Han Minority In Kaifeng Henan

This paper aims at doing a comprehensive research on folk dance and song of Han minority in the Kaifeng city of Henan Province, which is a kind of cultural phenomenon of folk music that has existed and been widespread for a long time but comparatively week in its study as well.With an extensive mass base, folk dance and song of Han minority in Kaifeng is an art form of comprehensive performance of singing, dancing, acrobatics, martial arts and traditional opera. In addition to the benefits of enriching the contents of Han minority's folk dance and song, cultivating materials for folk dance and song, and protecting from lost of excellent culture, engagement in a research into folk dance and song of Han minority in Kaifeng acquires a positively promoting sense for its own reservation, heritage and development.Herein, the writer makes an analysis of folk dance and song of Han minority in Kaifeng by a studying way of 'dot' and 'surface'. To begin with, there is a comprehensive and overall description of folk dance and song of Han minority in Kaifeng ranging from its history origin to the distribution, category, performance form, musical characteristics and specialty in art of the existing dancing program. Next, to bit by bit analyze the Pangu (a kind of drum), which is the most influential dancing program of the folk dance and song in Kaifeng, by the means of case survey. 'dot' is inside 'surface' while 'surface' is presented by 'dot', which so clearly creates out a complete picture of folk dance and song in Kaifeng. Besides, the writer also elaborates on the background and functions of folk dance and song in Kaifeng from the angle of culture, revealing the social functions of massing communication, cultural heritage and healthily entertainment embodied in folk dance and song in Kaifeng, meanwhile pointing out the irreplaceable impact of related folk custom and ecology on the origin and development of folk dance and song for thousands of years.