The Study Of Quanzhou Marionette's Movement Form

Marionette is called "Jia li" or "puppet" in Quan zhou, whose history could be traced back to the late Tang. According to the historical developing track of Quan zhou marionette, it derived from late Tang, developed in song and yuan, thrived in ming and qing. Being one of the most important cultural phenomenon in quan zhou, marionette plays an momentous role in people's lives, such as weddings and funerals. At the same time, because its action form is flexible and innovative, it instills new vitality into the transmission and development of folk dance, for this reason, it is also one of the indispensable material to research into min nan folk dance.This study focuses on the dance form of "za" which is the representative element of Quan zhou marionette, taking A Little Monk Goes Downhill which is an excellent repertoire in "za" for example, making use of multidisciplinary approaches such as historie, physiology, dancology,anthropology and so on, explaining how a. "dead marionette" change into a "live marionette" in terms of sculpting of marionette, designing of digit line, installing of Gou pai and so on, researching into the discipline of its performing, then giving rise to some thoughts about the dancology value of study on marionette's dance form——value of education, value of research and value of creation.