Study On The Evaluation Of Ugliness In Shandong Yangko

Yangko occupies an important position in the Chinese civil society as a kind of traditional folk dance.There are many discourses about the kinds and origin of Yangko.Qingzhou Yangko is a kind of northern yangko.It not only has the basic structure of the northern yangko,but also possesses local characteristics.The performance of Qingzhou Yangko is mostly between Spring Festival and Lantern Festival,and similar to the Western Carnival.Among of it,the performance of Harlequin contains reproductive worship and pornographic elements which can make people release pressure,has become a reducing valve of society.However,Qingzhou Yangko is not exactly the same as the Western Carnival,but has its own characteristics.The performance of yangko is not simple carnival,but within the permission of social structure.It is symbolic and embodies the Chinese characteristics.The prototype of harlequin comes from the characters who are in the edge of the social structure and possess a strong flavor of life.There is a integrated sequence and structure in the whole performance of Qingzhou Yangko.Harlequin’s performance has obvious anti-structural features.They are most at the edge of social structure and wander inside and outside of the structure and filled with inconsistent features from the inside to outside.The pornographic elements of the performance are deeply affected by the Qilu culture and do not match the traditional ethics of the Qingzhou region.To some extent,the harlequin’s performance broken the traditional ethics of the shackles and the settings of gender.In the short period of the Spring Festival,people enter a kind of convergent state that the indiscriminate,identity blending.The whole society is purified.After the threshold period,the whole society back to the normal structure and start a new round of life full of vitality.The people in the Qingzhou have a strong moral meaning in the evaluation of the harlequins of the yangko.The traditional Chinese aesthetics define the behavior that violate the established norms and morals as ugliness.This idea is reflected in the evaluation of the harlequins in Qingyang Yangko.Through the " judge ugliness"in Qingzhou Yangko,people can transform abstract ethical requirements into specific vivid characters.Ugliness and laugh of the watching performance make the audience ponder their own behavior and thoughts whether meet ethical requirements.At the same time,the existence of harlequins also provide the opportunity to examine itself from the outside structure,so that people can redefine the boundaries of beauty and ugliness,morality and immorality,guide people’ s daily life and promote the stability of village and even the whole society.