The Joseon folk dance in China was established with the immigration of Joseon people into China and has continued for many years undergoing a lot of political/social/cultural changes. The culture of dance is a dominant producer of contemporary culture...
The Joseon folk dance in China was established with the immigration of Joseon people into China and has continued for many years undergoing a lot of political/social/cultural changes. The culture of dance is a dominant producer of contemporary culture, regardless of the times. In this vein, it is meaningful to study in depth and systematically the cultural and artistic characteristics of the Joseon folk dance in China, centering on its modality of cultural historical transfiguration, from the aspects of Jeonseon people's history in China.
Study findings as follows:
Although it is somewhat different by literatures, its settlement period is from 1910 to the establishment of the country in 1949. In this period, the history of Joseon people in China was developed with mutual influences of such countries as North Korea, Japan, and Russia.
Under this historical and environmental limitation and Joseon people's actual situation, the dance culture of Joseon people in China has no distinctive feature. However, popular and self-entertaining customs are shaped as a Joseon's traditional dance. Based on this condition, the Joseon folk dance in China reflects the tradition of Joseon's traditional culture and objective reality and presents the trend of the times.
As the establishment of the People's Republic of China in 1949, the Joseon folk dance in China keeps pace with the huge flow of Chinese social revolution and then changes its characteristic to reflect the life, ideology, and emotion of the times on the basis of Joseon's traditional culture and dance.
Viewing from the perspective of development of dance culture, the contemporary Joseon folk dance in China prepares a very important practical basis to succeed and develop the national inheritance and tradition of Joseon
The period of inactivity is derived from the most powerful dominance and political control in China. In this period, all the cultural and artistic activities in China are sunk into inactivity. So, the Joseon folk dance in China has lost its previous achievement in dance art. As a minor ethnic group, Joseon people's dance art cannot but reflect the standpoint and grief and joy of the public in the support of construction of socialist civilization, which is based on Chinese cultural and artistic policies, thus creating such dance performances that can appeal to the public.
With this social and political atmosphere, the succession and development of Joseon folk dance in China undergoes inactivity. However, getting out of the tendency of the times, limitations, and blindness, the Joseon folk dance creates new forms of dance which shed new light on it and are appropriate to the tastes of the times, thus making people optimistic and endeavoring. And it is distinctive with narrative characters and diversified forms that projecting reality sensitively. Therefore, the creative tendency of the Joseon folk dance in China at that time is a start point of reflecting the feature of the times.
In the period of growth―from just before the establishment of the People's Republic of China to the Great Cultural Revolution, the Joseon folk dance in China is difficult to materialize its characteristics in the works in which the Joseon people's inherent cultural assets and dance tradition are reflected or in the creative works in which the propensity of revolution is reflected on the basis of the Chinese cultural and artistic policies.
However, with the advent of the era of reformation and opening, the Joseon folk society in China meets the period of political and social change and growth. Getting out of farming culture, the Joseon folk society is grafted into urban and market culture and its traditional consciousness and national culture also changes. With these changes, the Joseon folk dance pays attention to the rediscovery and recreation of traditional folk dance forms which was disappeared from the field of creation and education in the past.
Under the multi-strata and pluralistic cultural zone of minor ethnic groups, dancers' thinking space deepens and reflects new concepts, consciousness, and values, thus resulting in an epoch-making modality of development with which the Joseon folk dance in China gives life to its characteristics and grows in the period of new history.
The period of conversion is the stage of executing reformation and opening and brings a continuous development of economy. With the establishment of market economy, the Joseon folk society in China proceeds to the opening, and its creation of dance performance and performing activity of dance bears a new tendency of development. Civil and private folk dance activities, which were carried out in folk and festival plays, gradually change into artistic dance.
With the full-fledged introduction of market economy, people's level of appreciation for performances improves in the Joseon folk society. Therefore, they demand better dance works and better performance, thus distinctively enhancing the ideal of dance creation.
With this historical background, the creation of dance in the 1990s pursues creative inspiration and comprehensive art form which proceeds to diversified, liberal, ethnic, traditional, personal, and modernistic direction. Especially with the reformation and opening the Joseon folk dance sheds light on traditional culture and equips with independent beauty in the creation of Joseon folk dance.
The growth and development of the Joseon culture in China depends on the sociocultural environment and the exchanges of culture and art in the regional society.
The Joseon folk dance in China has been rapidly grown and developed as it undergoes the periods of settlement, inactivity, growth, and conversion. Together with the market economy in China, the Joseon folk society undergoes the changes of cultural environment and value systems, and its people's cultural needs are diversified.
Modern society is not only opening, competitive, and knowledge-oriented, but also internationalized. The Joseon folk in China has created diversified dance types, in which its own ecological culture is alive, by means of cultural and artistic exchanges with other regions and ethnic groups. The Joseon folk dance in China at the moment proceeds to a stage art and goes to the road of systematization through creative activities and active development of culture.
The investigator hopes many in-depth and extended studies on the Joseon folk dance in China are carried in the future to find out its cultural and artistic characteristics and historical values through a variety of methodologies.