| Jingxing Lahua generated and spread in the territory of Jingxing, Shijiazhuang,Hebei Province. It is deeply loved by the masses since ancient times because its energetic and soft, uninhibited and elegant, warm and lyrical artistic characteristics.Although it belongs to the category of Yangko, it has its own conspicuous characteristics. In the long process of generation and development, it assembled the wisdom and talent of people in Jingxing. Jingxing is located in the mountains with infertile land and poor people. It is without not only “beautiful and distinctive clothes”,but also "special and precious plants”. Even "the food and clothing taxes" are unworthy of being levied in this poor and remote place. This kind of special natural and historic environment cultivated and fostered honest, persistent and optimistic quality of mind of Jingxing people. The artistic style of "wildness, uninhibitedness,hardness and softness" of Jingxing Lahua is a reflection of this psychological quality.With the development of the era, people’s living standard is improving rapidly; Lahua also presents a new dance style. Theoretical knowledge of folklore, dancing morphology, dancing ecology, dancing aesthetics, pedagogy and other subjects are used In this paper, It explores the historical and cultural significance, meanwhile,analyzes the entity of Lahua, and conducts a study on the relationships and characteristics between artistic style evolution and aesthetic reflection of Jingxing Lahua to find methods for inheriting with the opportunity of protecting and inheriting intangible cultural heritage.The paper is divided into four parts:The first part is the general situation of Jingxing Lahua. It analyzes the basic general situation of Jingxing Lahua from two different views, its ecological environment and the exploration of its origin and development. The unique artistic style—hardness mixed with softness, uninhibitedness and implicitness, rapid change—of Lahua is due to the ecological environment of high mountains and steep slopes.The second part elaborates the historical and cultural connotations of Lahuathroughout thousands of years from the form of costumes. The entity of Jingxing Lahua is analyzed from the view of constituent materials and typical dancing categories, using the research methods of dancing ecology and dancing morphology.The third part analyzes the aesthetic reflection in artistic style evolution of Lahua.There are various reasons for Jingxing Lahua of becoming an unique local feature.This chapter strengthens out the condition of reform and development in different periods to find out the reason for the new aesthetic vision forming during its evolution and the reflection of the new spirit.The fourth part is a discussion for using four feasible ways-- popularize Jingxing Lahua by creativity, develop propagating ways by education, integrate the characteristics and school-based curriculum and enrich mass culture by elements—aiming to provide reference basis for the inheritance and development of Lahua. |
