舞蹈人类学视野下桐柏县丧葬仪式的文化解读

The Cultural Interpretation of the Funeral Ceremony of Tongbai County in the Perspective of Dance Anthropology

"开路"是流传在河南省桐柏县的民间丧葬文化遗产,是丧葬仪式中的民俗舞蹈。本文从舞蹈人类学的视角,运用田野调查、文献分析和宗教仪式理论等方法,通过对桐柏山区民间丧葬仪式舞蹈"开路"的自然环境、人文环境、仪式过程、内容、神仙系统、八卦舞谱、仪式音乐的艺术特征等进行解读,揭示了民间丧葬仪式中的舞蹈与民俗民风之间的关系,探索古老的八卦舞谱在人们日常生活中的作用和在中国舞蹈传承与发展中的价值。

＂Opening a way＂is a folk funeral culture heritage which is popular in Tongbai County,Henan Province,as well as a kind of folk dance existing in funeral ceremony. In the perspective of dance anthropology,through field investigation,literature analysis,ritual theory and other approaches,this paper reveals the relationship between dance in folk funeral ceremony and folk custom,and the value of the ancient Eight Diagrams dance notation in people’s daily life and in the inheritance and development of Chinese dance based on the analysis of its natural environment,human environment,process and content,the immortal system,the Eight Diagrams dance notation,and the artistic features of ceremony music.