The Inheritance And Development Of Ansai Waist Drums In A New Situation

Ansai waist drum is a kind of widespread folk dance in the north of Shanxi,setting percussion music,wind music,dance and martial art as a whole.It has the history of over 2000 years,profoundly showing the simpleness,honesty,and persistence of the people in the north loess plateau of Shanxi.As a distinctive and traditional sports event,Ansai waist drum was ranked in the first national intangible cultural heritages in 2006.In order to inherit and develop it well in the new situation,some researches are conducted in this thesis to get the following conclutions based on the methods of Documentary,Interviews,Field research,Survey,and Statistics:1.The modern values of Ansai Waist Drums lie in culture,body fitness,entertainment,education and economy.The skills,cultures and spirits are passed down.Most of the inheritors are well educated,but still some are not that well-educated,preventing the its growing.These inheritors think highly of the prospective of this dance and others involved also have great knowledge and fond of it.However,the their learning time is not long enough for them to learn advanced skills with the main purpose of gaining skills from fathers or through school courses,performance and games for a better living and health.2.The main problems are as followed— no renewed concept for development,quite a number of people seeing it as a way for living but not an art,incomplete regulations about the protection of inheritors for its management,inheritors’ lost in following,and skill lost because of no professional training.3.Some measures are proposed according to the current issues,such as,setting a scientific developing concept,integrating drums’ development into country’s flourishing,enforing the law protection of this dance for its culture parts,establishing a skillful and stable group for inheritance,and putting it into the construction of sports events.