RESEARCH ON THE VALUE OF REPRESENTATIVE FOLK DANCE LANGUAGE IN SHANXI, CHINA

Abstract

As a product of the combined influence of Shanxi's geographical culture and humanistic culture, Shanxi's representative folk dances not only occupy an important position in China's Han folk dance, but is also an important expression tool for Shanxi people to express emotions, entertain and communicate. From ancient times to the present, after thousands of years of development, Shanxi's representative folk dances are still able to stand the test of time and the people and are still active on the current stage. However, in both classroom teaching and stage performances, contemporary Shanxi folk dances tend to focus only on external forms, while the cultural connotations behind their movement language are easily overlooked. The emergence of this problem will make it difficult to clearly distinguish the style characteristics of Shanxi's representative folk dances, and the phenomenon of similarity will appear. Therefore, this research employs the ethnographic research method to collect and analyze data. It examines the specific cultural connotations of the movements, roles, music, and props in representative folk dance languages of Shanxi. It reveals the value of representative folk dances of Shanxi in contemporary social life and provides theoretical references for the protection and sustainable development of these folk dances.

Keywords: Language, Representative folk dances of Shanxi, Shanxi Province, Value Research, Ethnography