论傩舞的游戏性

On the Game Property of Exorcise

傩舞是传统的民间宗教祭祀舞,积沉着深邃的历史文化内涵。随着时代的发展,傩舞的宗教色彩不断淡化,由古代的专门祭祀逐渐演变成既娱神又娱人,有的地方还衍变成娱人为主、娱神为辅的民间艺术。傩舞中具有强烈的祭祀宗教成份,倘若抽去这些成份因子,展现出来的是完全具有娱乐游戏功能的傩舞。文章纵观游戏论的各种观点,阐述了游戏的本义与傩舞的精神实质在一定程度上是相一致的,并通过对傩舞的特征、傩戏的演变以及傩戏时所营造的场面、气氛的分析,得出傩之游戏的结论。

Exorcise is a kind of traditional folk religious dance for sacrifice, which accummulates profound historical connotation. As time goes on, the exorcise has weakened its religious colour unceasingly, evolved into the form of appropriate sacrifice in ancient time into the form of amusing both god and human now. It also has evolved into folk art of amusing human primarily and god auxiliarily. The exorcise possesses intensive dements of religious sacrifice. Provided that it were drawn off such elements, the exorcise would come out to be a form, which is just a complete recreation. This paper demonstrates that to some degree the mental characteristics of exorcise are in line with the basic properties of games. By analyzing the characteristics, the development of exorcise and the surroundings of the stage, this article comes to the conclusion that exorcise, a unique dance form originated from ancient China, is also a particular form of game.