Themes,Characteristics,and Values of Wedding and Funeral Performances from the Participants'Perspective—A Field Study Based on Xiangdong Ma Township
Currently,performances at weddings and funerals have become the most lively and influential public events in many rural areas.Certain professional folk troupes,song and dance ensembles,and regional opera troupes have become the main organizers and performers of these events.They carefully create highly entertaining,diverse,and natural performances by combining the needs of rural communities,their own strengths,and the reality of present-day customers'demands.Rural populations actively participate in these activities,and in such a warm and joyful atmosphere,not only do they relax both physically and mentally,and thus become more united,but they also attain a certain form of auto-sufficiency,transforming and adjusting public cultural and artistic life through joint creation.
Performances at weddings and funeralsPublic cultural activitiesCountrysideArt TroupeRural population
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