Analysis For The Living State Of Zhuang Tea-Picking Drama And Its Protection And Development

Zhuang tea-picking drama has been included in the list of Intangible Cultural Heritage of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, and mainly spreads in Guangxi Yongning, Hengxian and other places. Zhuang tea-picking drama is a branch of tea-picking drama which is produced in the background of collision of Jiangxi Gannan tea-picking drama and the Zhuang ethnic culture since the Jiangxi Gannan tea-picking drama spread to Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. It has strong Zhuang regional culture characteristics and has played a very important role in the aspects of promoting the development of production and riching people’s entertainment. However, with the high-speed development of social economy and the rapid spread of the modem culture, traditional Zhuang tea-picking drama has been caught in the development predicament and even on the verge of endangered. This thesis has been on the basis of the fieldwork, and been combined with literature materials and the theoretical knowledge of Dramaturgy, the Intangible Cultural Heritage and Folklore. On this basis, it has an in-depth research on the origin of Zhuang tea-picking drama, the living environment of Zhuang tea-picking drama, the dramatic form of Zhuang tea-picking drama, the living state of Zhuang tea-picking drama, and the protection and development of Zhuang tea-picking drama, and so on.This thesis consists of three parts:Introduction, Text and Conclusion, and the Text is divided into four chapters.The Introduction is a brief of overview of Zhuang tea-picking drama and its research status, and a clear opinion of the research value, research methods and research innovation.The first chapter is a discussion of the origin of Zhuang tea-picking drama and its living environment. By combing with the fieldwork materials and literature materials, we expound and prove the origin of Zhuang tea-picking drama. And the study of Zhuang tea-picking drama of the ecological environment is from the perspectives of the natural environment and the cultural environment.The second chapter is the research of the dramatic form of Zhuang tea-picking drama. We analyze its music, acting, stage art, folklore and scenario in order to find its dramatic form and get an overall understanding.The third chapter is Zhuang tea-picking drama’s living state investigation. We investigate the living state of two major tea-picking drama performance entities:Nameng Tea-picking Group in Nalou town, Youngning, Liuwu Tea-picking Group in Liujing town, Hengxian, And we also make a probing analysis of the factors that influence the development and heritage.The fourth chapter is the exploration of the protection and development of Zhuang tea-picking drama. There is necessary to protect and develop Zhuang tea-picking drama because of its value. So from the value of mining Zhuang tea-picking, we analyze the favorable conditions for its current protection and development, we also explore the basic principles and specific methods to protect Zhuang tea-picking drama, and strive to find effective protection and development approaches for it.The Conclusion is a summarized of this thesis.All in all, this thesis which is a research on the basis of fieldwork, taps the Zhuang tea-picking drama’s value, describes and analyzes the living state of Zhuang tea-picking drama which has been on the verge of endangered with an objective way, and provides some constructive suggestions for the protection and development of Zhuang tea-picking drama in order to make Zhuang tea-picking drama rational utilize and fully develop in the process of the development of modern civilization.