Study On The Folklore Narrative And Local Identity

This thesis takes the intangible cultural heritage museum group in Yinzhou district of Ningbo as a case study.Using the methods of field investigation and literature research,the author discuss the issue of the intangible cultural heritage museum as a local product,its construction relationship and operational logic between folklore narrative and local identity and analyzes the role played by its multi-narrative paths in utilizing and expressing local traditional cultural resources,condensing local cultural identity,reshaping local cultural consciousness in the dilemma of local culture dissolution and loss of local identity in the context of urbanization.The main body of the thesis is divided into four parts.The first part analyses the formation and change of folk resources in Yinzhou District,points out the dilemma of extinction of folk resources and the crisis of local identity caused by it.The typical conservation mode of the intangible cultural heritage museum group in Yinzhou brings new vitality to the solution of this problem.The second part starts from the three folklore narrative modes of image,behavior and number.Through five specific cases,it reveals the narrative expression of the intangible cultural heritage museum group in Yinzhou,and points out that the folklore narrative has three characteristics:performance,interaction and emotion.The third part focuses on the construction of multi-subject local identity under the folklore narrative of the intangible cultural heritage museums,which includes the identity of the inheritors,the identity of the people's life,the cultural identity of the new generation and the identity of the outsiders.Under the role of local identity,a national cultural conscious action was awakened and the intangible cultural heritage has returned to the people's life.The fourth part makes a theoretical analysis of the operation mechanism of the intangible cultural heritage museum group in Yinzhou in the process of forming local identity.As a public cultural space carrying contemporary folklore,the intangible cultural heritage museum group in Yinzhou presents folk culture in museum space through various folklore narrative methods such as image,behavior and number,thus arousing people's memory and emotion and forming the local identity.This thesis argues that “promoting local identity” is one of the roles of the intangible cultural heritage museum.Under the crisis of local cultural dissolution and lack of local identity,the intangible cultural heritage museum aroused the memory and emotions of the people through folklore narratives and formed local identity.Under the influence of this local identity,a cultural conscious action involving the government,the society,and the people was awakened,and the intangible cultural heritage returned to the people's life.