The Research Of The Clown Image Of The Shanxi Folk Dance

"Clown image" is one of the Shanxi folk dance images. And its way of creating character has been effected by the homologous arts of the same peirod, especially by the shanxi local opera and Wushu. Modeling the clown image has many essential factors, such as ugly dress-up, daily stage props,zany moves and superb soundtrack of percussion. At the same time, it shows the mood of optimistic joy, and relax of festival,which impact every audiences unconsciously. While this clown image in shanxi folk dance has been through a long evolution in art history and gradually become the special one. This paper is going to manily disicuss the clown image,including its original image, process of building up, analysis of typical images in each kind of shanxi folk dance.Eventually, it would summarize the features of various class typical image and try to figure out the value of clown image.