Modern Reconstruction Of The Traditional Zhuang Song Fair Culture

Song Fair culture is a valuable asset for Zhuang nationality. As a traditional folk culture, what is development which Song Fair has experienced, and what is true reason for the changes of Song Fair, and what’s kind of power to shape up the modern form of the traditional Song Fair. This paper is going to discuss these issues. As a case study, this paper research the Zhubu Fair of Guangxi Longzhou County in the perspective of field theory and the theory of cultural change, using in-depth interviews and literature Combination ways to explore the modern reconstruction process of Song Fair culture. From the origin of Song Fair, this paper discuss the original songs and their derived formation the cultural connotations under Bulutuo culture, and make a descriptive presentation for the tradition and modern field of Song Fair, using the reform and opening up in1978as a separate point of time. Then, the author further analyze the transformation of Song Fair from the traditional to the modern under the social system of economic, social and cultural aspects, and make a complete interpretation for inside restructuring of Song Fair’s field, at last, this paper analyze the strength of Song Fair reconstructed in-depth exploration.By deeply excavation of Zhuang Song Fair’s cultural development process, recognized the scene of Song Fair’s habitus changed from improvisation type to a predetermined pattern, traditional Song Fair are generally temporary activity, while modern Song Fair have strict requirements in folk genre, stage setting, activity process and rules. At the same time, the requirement of Song Fair’s habitus changed from self-entertainment-type to entertaining other type, traditional Song Fair is a period of everyone singing, people regard sing folk songs as compensation for hard labor and self-entertainment-stage for emotional communication, while modern Song Fair become entertainment-other performances. Traditional Song Fair is a field of high cultural capital and contains a certain symbolic capital, the field of modern Song Fair turn into a high economic capital space, also a high political embedded form. The changes of capital leaded the adjustment of Song Fair’s internal structure, economy, society and other factors affected the change of Song Fair culture. The power of politics, economy, people and intellectual circles are the motion to shape the modern Song Fair. Government provide funds and human support for the conduction of Song Fair, Song Fair be regarded as a place to promote national lows and policies; businessmen provide sponsor for Song Fair, in order to get more economic benefits; people treated Song Fair as a platform of interpersonal communication and leisure life; intellectual circles created an atmosphere for cultural protection, giving advice for the development of Song Fair. The above factors together contributed to the modern reconstruction of traditional Song Fair. Facing of changing society, cultural changes become an indisputable fact. National culture want to survive and develop, it must learn to integrate with modern development by positive attitude, only adjust continually, would their vigor and vitality be kept.