| Begging-for-Deftness ritual in Xihe Country,Gansu Province is a folk custom that contains twelve sacrificial rituals of the pre-Qin Dynasty,each of which runs through the whole process by music and dance.Among them,the ceremony of dancing Ma Jiejie ceremonial item is a sacred ritual with the color of primitive religious witchcraft,which is tired of regional culture.The girls of Xihe take the beautiful ritual sound and the dance with totem worship characteristics as the carrier of the ceremony,and induce the extraordinary exertion of the special function of the human body through the dynamic characteristics of music and dance itself.The interpretation of music and dance reproduces the illusion which is different from the real world.The focus and innovation lie in the analysis of the local historical geographical and cultural characteristics from the perspective of music and dance,and the conclusion that the ritual illusion of Xihe begging-for-deftness music and dance is based on the collective unconscious embodiment of the inner belief of ritual believers after the catharsis of songs and dances.The phenomenon of descending the spirit and attaching the body is a kind of embodiment of the sympathetic thinking of the primitive human beings’ wrong understanding of nature,to a certain extent,it reflects the early Chinese thought of Animism and Human—Nature.Ritual music and dance constructs the time and space of music and dance communication between human and God,strengthens the personal belief,and deepens the belief degree of the common belief of the group.This paper attempts to explore the mysterious the illusion of Xihe begging-for-deftness music and dance ceremony,and from then on as the origin to explore the multidimensional nature of ritual music and dance,using the method of musical anthropology to excavate the essence of time art music and dance on the impact of time and space and people in the ritual field.This paper probes into the relationship between music and dance and the phenomenon of attachment,focusing on the role of music and dance in the phenomenon of attachment,and rises to the theoretical level to recognize the aesthetic characteristics of the ritual of begging-for-deftness for skillful music and dance. |