First, the inheritance of Chinese folk dance culture
Folk dance is national and traditional, and there are often such views on the traditional problems of folk dance. It seems that only the "original ecology" dance handed down by the people is folk dance, otherwise it is not folk dance but creative dance. People who hold this view emphasize "original flavor". In terms of aesthetic theory, it also unilaterally emphasizes adhering to the tradition, and the voice of "folk dance has gone too far" is endless, which affects the creative practice of folk dance to varying degrees and makes China's performance of folk dance stagnate. What is tradition? Tradition does not end in a certain day, but develops and enriches continuously. Today is the trend of climate, and tomorrow it will flow into traditional streams. Folk dance must be processed and improved when it comes to the stage from life and becomes a performing dance art. One-sided emphasis on the so-called "original flavor" will only hinder the technical upgrading and aesthetic development of folk dance. Of course, we should also prevent randomness, because since it is a folk dance, it should have a specific nationality, region and style. Yunnan Image is a large-scale collection of original ecological songs and dances, which is the integration and reconstruction of the classic essence of native local songs and dances and national dances, and reproduces the rich ethnic customs of Yunnan. A brand-new stage work with both traditional beauty and modern power. We should know that national dance is an immobile living fossil in the development of national culture. "Original ecology" folk dance belongs to the category of indigenous culture. Our nation can't stay at the level of showing indigenous culture to the world forever, but needs to keep pace with the times and look at national dance with a developmental perspective. The inheritance process of folk dance keeps pace with the times. We should treat the national dance art with the basic attitude of serious study, inheritance and creative development. In the process of inheritance, the basic folk traditions have been preserved, and new contents have been continuously increased, which has enriched and improved the Chinese folk dance culture.
Second, the development characteristics of Chinese folk dance culture
1. Inheritance, mass and entertainment of the development of folk dance culture
In ancient times, dance existed as body language. With the development of history, folk dance is not only confined to witchcraft activities and expressing reverence for gods. In terms of connotation, folk dance, as a means of inheriting cultural accumulation, has made an essential leap on its own level. Therefore, the inheritance of folk dance has become one of the basic characteristics of the development of Chinese folk dance. Folk dance is a process of inheriting culture in a group of self-aesthetics. From the initial expression of individual feelings, it is interpreted as the result of the collective creation of the masses, from the initial ode to field labor to a kind of self-entertainment, which is cultivated by traditional culture and national spirit in entertainment. Therefore, mass and entertainment will inevitably constitute another basic feature of the development of folk dance in China. At the same time, under the influence of the characteristics of the times, the development of Chinese folk dance culture plays a diversified role in different stages, different regions and different performance objects. Therefore, the development of Chinese folk dance culture is rooted in the nation and prospers in the times.
2。 Emotional color in the development of Chinese folk dance culture
The emotional color of the development of China national dance culture is the sublimation from perceptual knowledge to rational knowledge. With the development and progress of society, dance has changed to the direction of self-entertainment, penetrated into all fields of people's lives in the continuous development and dissemination, and has been preserved for a long time. Primitive people realized the importance of dance to their lives through working life. Feeling the emotional input from the real body to the spiritual world is the sublimation from perceptual knowledge to rational knowledge. The emotional color of the development of Chinese folk dance culture is manifested in vivid emotional expression. Folk dance originated from the people, reflecting real life and emphasizing the emotional color of the image. Folk dances of all ethnic groups are self-entertaining activities, which are closely related to people's working life, religious etiquette and festivals, and are an important part of life. This is also the main reason why folk dance has been developing for thousands of years. Chinese folk dance is the embodiment of people's emotional color. All its inner spiritual temperament, formal structure and style characteristics are determined and endowed by the national spirit, belief and psychological aesthetic consciousness. It is not only the need of aesthetics, but also people's expectation and spiritual sustenance for the future and the crystallization of national wisdom. The national spirit and the spirit of the times endow Chinese folk dance with new vitality and new image.
3. Diversity of Chinese folk dance culture development
Today's Chinese folk dance culture is facing the impact of overseas art and the wave of market economy. Its development, variation and expansion have formed many marginalized markets. The establishment of Shenzhen Folk Village makes folk dance travel, and folk dance has become a way of people's travel life. The popularity of nightclubs makes folk dance go to the ballroom, providing people with a place to find relief; The popularity of street yangko makes folk dance a way of people's fitness, and the current "new yangko in the square" is popular in the streets and lanes of urban and rural areas.
In previous national dance competitions, professional dancers used a large number of folk dance materials for adaptation and creation. The structural subject of new dance works expressing artistic thoughts, feelings and concepts has got rid of the simplicity of folk customs and risen to the grasp of national spirit and the pursuit of ideas. The combination of self-entertainment and performance determines that folk dance has a broader space, and also makes folk dance a stage art that can impress the audience. The formation of the "academic school" model representing a certain class and concept is the transformation of Chinese folk dance culture from "vulgarity" to "elegance". It represents a sublimation process of Chinese folk dance culture, that is, folk-folk-nation-mode. It marks the gradual integrity of Chinese folk dance culture and the improvement of aesthetic feeling, and finally goes to the world with the traditional advantages and personality of the nation.
Third, the development direction of Chinese folk dance culture
Folk dance culture has been passed down from generation to generation. With the development of social economy and culture, it is increasingly enriched and improved. The prosperity of the motherland has created infinite possibilities for the cultural development of all ethnic groups and provided a material and economic foundation, thus opening up a broad road for artistic creation, and the essence of national dance has been fully explored and developed. The development direction of folk dance culture has formed a clear goal: 1, the direction of popular culture. Both self-entertainment and performing arts are characterized by popularization, with special emphasis on self-entertainment dance. This is what Mr. Dai advocated: "Everyone dances in national dances". This direction is based on the traditional folk dance with a certain theme and a fixed form. 2. The direction of elite culture. Mainly performing dance, it is characterized by elegance, attaching importance to skills, absorbing nutrition from folk dance, exploring national spirit and refining action elements. This is the "academic" folk dance represented by China Folk Dance Department of Beijing Dance Academy. This direction is a new dance work that uses the ideas and themes existing in folk songs and epics to express the artistic thoughts, feelings and concepts of dancers with modern images.
Fourthly, the creative principles of the development of China folk dance.
1. The traditional "original ecology" folk dance should be creatively explained. In other words, it should be improved in processing and technology to make it more poetic, artistic and musical, and at the same time, it should be more dancing, rather than copying, mechanically copying or simply imitating. The real choreographer should not be a photographer, but an artist. Deeply reveal the content and connotation of national folk dance, fully develop the form of national folk dance and improve the skills of national folk dance. For example, only through the arrangement of musicians and the singing of singers can folk songs have more beautiful vocal color and more emotional color and artistic expression than "original ecological" folk songs, which is the processing, improvement and emphasis of skills. The "Yunnan Image" we see today is that dancer Yang li Ping, out of her love for dance and her innate national characteristics, spent more than a year tirelessly collecting folk songs and dances from all over Yunnan, selecting typical musical and dance elements in Yunnan, carefully rehearsing for 15 months, and devoted herself to building such a large-scale original ecological song and dance collection with traditional aesthetic feeling and modern main force with her unique perspective and imagination.
2. Create new dances on the basis of traditional folk art forms and national traditional spirit. Folk dance is a reflection of various phenomena in social life. Therefore, the choreographer should not only study dance, but also study people's life and culture on the basis of deeply studying folk dance tradition. Only in this way can we find out the production process, thoughts and feelings, life production methods and so on that affect its form and style. Then on the stage, with rich imagination, a new type of folk dance with the original image, emotion and style was created. Just as "Yunnan Image" shows us the life prototype of folk costumes of various nationalities in Yunnan, it shows the drum rhyme brought by 62 drums, and 120 masks with Yunnan ethnic characteristics ... these are all directly from Yunnan, maintaining the original characteristics. The dance language with original ecological essence, classic reconstruction and modern elements presented in the deductive image of Yunnan is the passion of the nation, the passion of life and the passion from the bottom of my heart. The imaginative lyrics are integrated with the abstract dance and the romantic color of the whole song and dance. There are countless valuable national cultural resources in our native land, but what we lack is just excavation. It is not easy to find a meeting point between original ecology and artistic processing. Yunnan Image, a large-scale original ecological song and dance, is a new dance based on traditional folk art forms and national traditional spirit, which has opened up a new creative field for stage art in China.
3. Reflect the image of traditional folk dance with modern methods. Such as Yunnan, primitive and modern. Its content is original, and it is the ordinary life of the villagers. Its actors are native, and 70% of the dancers come from various villages in Yunnan. Their blood is full of primitive dance genes. Its props are all real, such as bull's head, mani stone, prayer wheel, etc. And it is its originality and authenticity that moves people. The technique of Yunnan image is modern, and the fashionable technique makes ancient things shine, making it easier to enter the hearts of modern people. In the folk, in fact, dance is everywhere; In the folk, dancing is very simple. Simple dance uses modern techniques to give people a more concise and hazy dance image. The larger the imagination space, the richer the connotation. Modern techniques can be shown in dance music, such as Yunnan Image. Yunnan local music, as the main theme, is deeply impressed by singing and dancing; The processed original music, including all percussion and dance, enriches the scene at the same time; Modern creative music, as dance accompaniment and atmosphere creation, creates a very primitive feeling with various orchestration, timbre and harmony through modern arrangement. It is a continuation of the past and a modern drama. It is both national and modern, which makes us shocked, moved and moved. We feel the powerful charm of the new era in music, songs, dances, lights and movies. This kind of person
Fifth, popularize aesthetic education in Chinese folk dance culture.
1. Popularizing folk dance in aesthetic education is more important for its own development. An important goal of spiritual civilization construction in today's society is to improve the cultural quality of the whole people, and aesthetic education is one of the best ways to improve the cultural quality of the whole people. The constant feedback from social practice and teaching practice makes us realize that folk dance is an easily popularized art form of aesthetic education, and many favorable factors in the historical development of China folk dance make it a rare content in modern aesthetic education in China. At the same time, it is more important to promote folk dance in aesthetic education for its own development. Its remarkable functions are as follows: first, it can make folk dance return to the folk, draw new life force and make people pay attention to folk dance again. Folk dance itself is invented, developed and passed down by the working people. Only by returning folk dance to the folk matrix can we find the source of life in development. Second, let folk dance have a broader mass base. This public can be understood as cultivating aesthetic groups, that is, a large audience who can appreciate dance. Although most people who have gone through aesthetic education can't engage in the professional work of folk dance, they at least know folk dance, know folk dance and know the beauty of folk dance to some extent. When these people come to all levels of society, they will weave a huge aesthetic network for folk dance, thus driving the aesthetic trend of the whole society.
2. The significance of Chinese folk dance culture in aesthetic education. With people's dissatisfaction with exam-oriented education and the exploration of modern education, most parents hope that their children can learn a little art, improve their self-cultivation and enhance their creativity and imagination after their studies are successful. Chinese folk dance culture education has become one of the means to cultivate aesthetic taste in primary and secondary schools. Through the aesthetic education of China folk dance culture, students can love beauty more and understand the beauty of folk dance. Through the study of various folk dances, students' minds are subtly influenced, their sentiments are cultivated, and their noble qualities and keen perception of beauty are cultivated, thus purifying their minds and improving their personal cultivation and quality.
The highest principle of popularizing Chinese folk dance culture is aesthetic education. Form is not important, and the learning of technical movements is not the most important. The key is to let students feel the beauty in the process of learning, so that students can learn how to appreciate the beauty of dance, experience the beauty of dance and understand the essence of national dance. Popularizing China national dance culture plays a very important role in cultivating students' good posture. It can not only coordinate students' bodies, but also promote their physical and mental development, which is equally charming. Popularizing China folk dance culture can profoundly affect students in two kinds of temperament: one is national temperament. Let students learn a specific folk dance while accepting the influence of that national culture. For example, learn Mongolian dance and let students focus on heroic spirit; Learn Korean dance and experience subtle and restrained charm; Learn Uygur dance and experience that optimistic and humorous attitude. When students can truly experience the national style of this dance, they will learn it more easily. The second is your own temperament. Guide students to form a correct aesthetic view in the learning process and enhance their confidence in performance. Standing and sitting, forming a natural and beautiful posture, combined with a beautiful mentality, makes your temperament more elegant, energetic and charming. Popularizing China folk dance culture can create a relaxed, elegant and free space in the relatively dull environment of ordinary primary and secondary schools, so that adolescent children can have an appropriate place and way to express their feelings.
The ever-changing people's life and the prosperous national culture make folk dance look brand-new. Chinese folk dance culture will undergo multiple elutriations, multiple introductions and multiple sublations, and finally go to the world with its traditional advantages and personality of being relaxed, compatible, natural and frank.