The Root And Protection Idea Of Henan Traditional Entertainments

As a way for entertainment, Henan traditional entertainments contain a rich traditional culture of central plains of China, and play an important edutainment role in the daily life of the local people. The creation background of the Henan traditional entertainments is superior geographical environment, the main mode of production, rich legends. Henan traditional entertainments comes to the conclusion that the creation of it is in the direct line of central plains’ historic culture. It goes through the stages of sprouting period of Pre-Qin, developing period of Qin and Han dynasties, blending period of Weijin, great development of Sui and Tang dynasties and Wudai, flourishing period of Northern and Southern Song dynasties,the declining period of Qing and Ming dynasties and the transformation of The republic of China up to now.It traces Henan traditional entertainments from the five aspects:oral literature mainly on storyteller, singing and dancing closely related to temple fairs, competitive programs characterized with royal court obviously, games of a wide variety, miscellaneous arts popular with the public, and finds that Henan traditional entertainments have the characters of thick farming culture, obviously amusing gods, military war shadow, and Confucian culture. By tracing the Henan traditional entertainments, the study finds that it is constantly changing with the history development. Up to now, it has something in common with modern Henan entertainments and also differences. Their commonness is that have distinctive times features, social function and festival; The differences was that Henan traditional entertainments have gradually changed:from amusing god to mass entertainment, from entertainment primarily to give priority to with business.Although Henan traditional entertainments have a long history and the feature of unique culture heritage, it gradually lost the original charm and elegance because of the impact of modern media tools, foreign culture, urbanization, facing the situation of being lost to the world. As a case study, the writer discovers that the ruby in Henan and other regions have the phenomenon of "recovery". But, some people is not very understanding the game for ruby and hidden behind the cultural connotation; Some people think that ruby is "ring"; even some people play the mindset of ruby is out of curiosity. In addition, some scholars think that the ruby can inherit according the phenomenon of "recovery". The author thinks that we should not blindly follow suit to treat class recreational activities, subjectively talk about inheritance and innovation. But, we should respect the law of development of Henan traditional entertainments itself and the Henan people’s needs.