Community Construction in the Cultural Memory:Textual Transformations and Their Ritual Symbols in Zhuang Opera Yao Niang in Guangxi Province
The"memorial ceremony for Yao Niang"is a collective sacrificial activity held by people in the Zhuang area of Guangxi province to commemorate"Yao Niang",a girl of Yao nationality.As a"cohesive structure"in folk tradition,it not only includes many local cultural memories,but also symbolizes the historical signpost of national kinship.In the textual evolution from the ritual to drama,the Zhuang opera Yao Niang relies on the tradition of sacrificial rituals and encodes and reconstructs this collective memo-ry as it takes the"plague narrative"as the plot and employs the theatrical space to display local ethnic symbols such as masks,drums,costumes.Meanwhile,it outlines the process of ethnic cohesion in a specific region.The Zhuang opera Yao Niang makes use of its own media attributes to present the cultural memory and preserve the cultural memory with vivid artistic practice,which not only integrates"local knowledge"into"Chinese culture,"but also responds to the path of forging the"Sense of a Community of the Chinese nation"with nationalized artistic and aesthetic practices.
Zhuang opera Yao Niangtextual transformationritual symbolcultural memorycommunity construction
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