The Research On The Transmutation And Persistence Of Yunmeng Shadow Puppetry Under The Cultural Change

Yunmeng Shadow Puppetry has hundreds of years of historical accumulation,and its local atmosphere is very strong.It is an art form of folk culture.In today’s fast-paced society,many local shadow puppets have been settled in museums or even disappeared,but Yunmeng Shadow Puppetry has continued to this day,and can still carry out commercial operation locally and even spread abroad,covering France,South Korea,Russia,Sri Lanka,Malta and other countries.This is not only because Yunmeng Shadow Puppetry has unique characteristics,but also inseparable from Yumeng’s good cultural environment and the persistence of shadow puppet artists.Under the background of the state’s vigorous support for China’s intangible heritage culture,Yunmeng Shadow Puppetry has considerable research value.This paper takes Yunmeng Shadow Puppetry as the research object.Through consulting the information of Yunmeng County Cultural Museum and interviewing Yunmeng Shadow Puppetry artists,on the basis of understanding the development history and current situation of Yunmeng Shadow Puppetry,on the one hand,it makes a comprehensive analysis of shadow puppetry works from script to performance,on the other hand,it makes a field research in Yunmeng and investigates Yunmeng local shadow puppetry Museum,Random street interviews were conducted with local residents to diachronically sort out the replacement of Yunmeng Shadow Puppetry.Combined with the theories of folklore,sociology and other related discipline,this paper discusses the functional evolution and modern writing of Yunmeng Shadow Puppetry under the changes of the times.On the basis of rational speculation,the intangible heritage cultural inheritance and development model with certain reference significance is sorted out.This article is divided into five chapters.The first chapter describes the characteristics of Yunmeng Shadow Puppetry,traces the origin of Yunmeng Shadow Puppetry,clarifies the historical trajectory of shadow puppetry transmission from Anlu,Hubei to Yunmeng,and summarizes the living soil of Yunmeng Shadow Puppetry from several aspects of Chu cultural beliefs and local social culture.In the second chapter,in the modernization process of agricultural civilization entering urban civilization,Yunmeng Shadow Puppetry changed the performance field for several times in order to survive better,from rural villages to teahouses,and then changed to business dirtrict scenic spots.Under the the field change,Yunmeng Shadow Puppetry is constantly innovating itself in order to save itself.The third chapter discusses the inevitability of the transformation of the cloud dream shadow puppet function,detail in that the Yunmeng Shadow Puppetry functionally completes the transformation and superposition from the witchcraft function to the aesthetic education function,and then to the entertainment function.Chapter four is starting from the cultural environment,the cultural connotation of Yunmeng Shadow Puppetry is also constantly changing in the post-industrial era.And shadow puppetry artists are inevitably influenced.They de-stylize shadow puppetry and reconstruct the connotation of "Pan-comedy".On this basis,integrated with the new technology,the development space of Yunmeng Shadow Puppetry has been expanded.The fifth chapter sorts out the current situation and inheritance dilemma of Yunmeng Shadow Puppetry artists from the perspective of intangible cultural heritage.In view of this dilemma,we need to create new shadow puppetry in the new era,expand the extension of shadow puppetry combined with new technology and build an ecological and cultural industry chain.In the new era of advocating cultural self-confidence and carrying forward Chinese culture,it is of great significance to sort out the development model of Yunmeng Shadow Puppetry and help other intangible heritage cultures to develop and inherit.