Like a number of other organizations, the internal transformation of square dance dance team also can promote the team spirit and character.
On the square dancers, dance is a kind of important life, greatly small dance team has become old women in modern China loneliness, emotional communication group. But for most people, the square dance aunt's image is a common joke, and stigma (stigma) behind the crisis and anxiety is a reflection of the Chinese female identity, contradiction and collision of the public space, implies a metaphor and irony in the reform era. When we review the history of changes, may put everything to its dramatic conflict, but at the moment, the perspective of prudent analysis will determine the future development of the road.
In this paper, the original "cultural aspect" published in the magazine's 2015 second issue, author: Wang Qianni (Department of anthropology, Chinese University Hong Kong):
Like a number of other organizations, the internal transformation of square dance dance team also can promote the team spirit and character.
Square dance “ ” in today's China has become a controversial cultural focus. Why it's so popular is usually interpreted as a cheap and low threshold, or the resurgence of traditional collectivism. With this interpretation, the square dance “ ” and the square dancers are negative news after the flood, the whole society seems to “ &rdquo and “ noise pollution; space ” as the main battlefield, start on the square dance ". However, this paper argues that the debate surrounding noise and space of superficial, I hope that can jump out of the dispute itself, along the historical context and historical background to the interpretation of the square dance ” &ldquo “ deep reasons, and its participants incur stigma; square dance ” back, should reflect the history, social and cultural issues and more the large dimension.
Square dance positive energy and negative image of
As with most of the city of Henan province China, small and medium-sized city in recent years has undergone great changes, many of the original inhabitants in order to obtain better learning and job opportunities to move to the big city, but also foreign immigrant settlement. The construction and development of the frequent movement of the old and new residents social acquaintances is broken, inherent in the neighborhood will be broken up reconstruction. In the summer of 2013, the author interviewed the city square dance team, by its internal social problem investigation, found in the city, middle aged and retired women are very dependent on dance groups, this is not only because they thought that the exercise to be more healthy, more important is the square dance created a social atmosphere.
I found that many women in the square dance, can be called the history of the first generation of &ldquo China; lonely mother ”. Because of the family planning policy, they may be just entering middle age, began to face alone the situation at home, her husband went to the income of many higher field work, children from high school or junior high school began to “ education is more developed in ” areas, not to mention the elderly have university and moved to marry and settle down the field. The cause of these changes to the existing family relations in the lonely, have contributed to them for an alternative social demands. Women who are square dance this new group acceptance and emotional support, they also can be more active to face all kinds of challenges to families and children, aging, and the problem caused by marriage. The specific causes women to participate in square dancing is always varied, but overall, loneliness is a very important factor. Square dance is a kind of healing lonely way, meet these women strong desire for interpersonal communication and emotional resonance, as a &ldquo ” massage;.
