The Shanxi Shouyang Ancient Stage Investigation Report

Shanxi Shouyang County is located in the western foot of the Taihang, Jinzhong northeastern edge, it has a long history and culture of ancient, honest, ancient cultural relics, relics dotted.Since the mid-Qing Dynasty, opera performances have been quite active in1820to1860, Tongzhi years, many opera troupes are active in Shouyang earth. As the opera venues of the stage, also came into being."There is the village temple there, there is the temple there Stage", can be said for most villages Shouyang portrayal. The author conducted a field survey and found that within the existing ancient stage Shouyang County as much as much as91. Although there are so many Shouyang County seat stage, but apart from a domestic experts and scholars in his writings on a stage where a simple description, but there is no more detailed and professional research. Visible, the ancient stage for Shouyang County itself left a lot of research gaps, as the author of the original paper provides a strong guarantee. In this paper, according to the distribution of Shouyang County township administrative division of the existing description of the ancient stage, so the distribution of the ancient stage of its accurate positioning. In the ancient stage in Shouyang, in quantitative terms, the east than in the west to the ancient stage, the preservation case, save the integrity of the ancient stage west than the east, the difference between the two is due to the relatively developed eastern, while the west is relatively poor, relatively developed eastern part of the traffic, while the west is relatively isolated; respect of the period, mostly in the late Qing Dynasty; on architectural form, the back seat is mostly built on a stone platform, danyan Juanpeng hanging Peak, three wide, sub-stage front desk; on folk belief, the belief in God and the Goddess of Mercy Guan both the majority, there are16stage temple, the temple has nine stage. Shouyang extant ancient stage though larger quantities, but in the course of fieldwork, I found that most of these ancient stage has been abandoned and converted to other uses, lost its role as a drama propagation vector, can not help but deeply sorry.The survey has been the strong support of Shouyang County Department of Cultural Affairs heritage management and other related departments, the author repeatedly went Shouyang villages, towns, villages, field trips, after sharing six months when finally delivered on efforts to complete the organize and improve the work of Shouyang ancient stage data. However, due to the history of several large war damage and the "Cultural Revolution " period, coupled disrepair, natural disasters and protect the weak sense, these great masses of native ancient buildings have mostly broken and on the verge of collapse, the ancient stage protection and restoration work has become essential. I, as a native of Shouyang people, aims to Shouyang ancient stage of investigation and research, for future generations to provide some reference materials and information on the ancient stage and opera in Shanxi, but also hope that through this research is the home of ancient stage to protect their own little humble contribution.