The Practice of Intangible Cultural Heritage Creation in"National Form":Taking the China Puppet Art Theatre as an Example
Promoting Chinese local folk art in the form of the Chinese"national form"on the world stage is not only necessary for the country's external propaganda work,but also necessary for the international cultural and tourism market.The China Puppet Art Theatre is a literary and artistic troupe that shoulders the above-mentioned propaganda tasks.Since 1955,more than 200 inheritors of folk puppetry from all over the country have explored and jointly created"Chinese style"puppetry that can be performed on the world stage.By examining the creative achievements of the theater,it can be seen that there are significant differences in the display of the concepts of"Chinese national art","local folk art"in different period which can be summarized into three stages:creating Chinese puppetry,market operation of Chinese puppetry,and returning to intangible cultural heritage puppetry.Moreover,in order to transform"local folk art"into"Chinese form"works,the theater has explored a large-scale puppet show model,which has four dimensions of characteristics:"modern experience","traditional performance form","integrated expression method",and"various forms of expansion".
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