Folk Drama with Carved Wooden Masks

Folk Drama with Carved Wooden Masks is Anshun Di Opera of Anshun City, Guizhou Province.

Anshun Disk Theater is a traditional folk theater unique to the Tumbu people of Anshun City, Guizhou Province, wearing a wood-carved mask on the head, which is also one of the national intangible cultural heritages. This wood-carved mask is commonly known as "face", and the production process is complicated and fine, which is an important prop of Anshun Disk Theater. The sheet theater is a kind of one-person puppet theater.

Both are traditional Chinese art forms, but they have different characteristics and performance styles. Performers in Anshun Di Opera usually wear masks for their performances, whereas single-person puppetry is performed by a single actor manipulating a puppet. Although they are performed in different forms, they both show the wisdom and creativity of the Chinese people.

In Anshun Di Opera, masks are the centerpiece of the performance. These masks are usually made of wood carvings and the production process is complicated and delicate. Each mask has different expressions and features, representing different roles and personalities.

By wearing the masks, the actors blend their emotions with their characters and present a vivid image to the audience. The performance movements and voices of Anshun Di Opera are very unique, with strong local colors, showing the culture and history of Guizhou region.

Inheritance of the current situation

Anshun opera culture is facing the inheritance of the dilemma is multifaceted, both its own reasons, but also the impact of the outside world, in the modernization wave, the outside world of the impact of the strength of the scope of the traditional culture of a short period of time is difficult to adapt to the modernization of the duality of the traditional culture is inevitably facing the inheritance dilemma. The traditional culture inevitably faces the dilemma of inheritance.

The lack of inheritance subject is the biggest dilemma facing the inheritance of local opera culture. Under the impact of the market tide, the main body of the inheritance of local opera culture is facing the dilemma of loss, alienation and complete extinction, the final demise of the main body of the inheritance will mean the end of the local opera culture business.

After the reform and opening up, people's values are becoming more and more diversified under the stimulation of increasingly rich material conditions, and the principle of money first prompts people to go out of the mountain villages in pursuit of material interests, and the prevalence of the trend of part-time jobs diverts a large portion of the young labor force, and this group of people are exposed to the outside world at an early age, and they are greatly influenced by the outside world.

Most of them are unwilling to follow the old artists to learn the local opera performance for economic purposes, and most of those left behind in the countryside are old people and children, and young people, as an important part of the chain of inheritance, have become more and more disconnected from traditional culture under the impact of the commodity economy.

With the development of the times, the popularization of television and the Internet is a great test for the young people of Tunbao, the new audio-visual effect is more in line with the aesthetics of the young people, they are more likely to be integrated into the rhythm of the modern society, and thus are more inclined to the modern culture, and the local local opera culture has gradually withdrawn from their field of vision, the loss of young people is undoubtedly a "bottom of the payroll" for the heritage of the local opera culture.

The family members and young people who are the main inheritors are no longer responsible for the original inheritance function, and the change and disappearance of the main inheritors means the final demise of the cultural matters carried by them.

The cultural bearers of the local opera are generally low in cultural level and unevenly distributed in age groups, and the team is aging seriously, facing the embarrassment of a lack of successors. For the local opera culture passed on by word of mouth, the lack of intergenerational is likely to cause a break in the cultural heritage.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia-Anshun Di Opera