As a main branch of the Chinese shadow play, Laoting shadow play has been an shinning and bright flower in our folk arts with a wide variety of synthetically expressive skills and arias in China modern history. This papaer takes the Laoting shadow play troupe as the object of study, adopting the anthorpology and sociology thoery as the study foundation. It tries to explain the active art formation and cultural characteristics of the Laoting shadow play from the multiple and stereoscopic angle by the social group circle concept.This paper has been classified into three chapters as follows:exordium; charpt one, the survey of Laoting shadow play and its troupes; chapter two, a case study of the Laoting shadow play troupe; charpt three, the cultural explain of the Laoting shadow play troupes. |