Form of Shanxi Folk Dance from the Perspective of Semiotics
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https://doi.org/10.22399/ijcesen.2112Keywords:
Shanxi Folk Dance, Zuoquan Xiaohua Opera, Folk Dance Science, Semiotics Theory,, Histogram of Oriented GradientAbstract
Among the many difficulties facing traditional folk dancing are the possibility of cultural homogenization and the disintegration of heritage. The impact of foreign culture weakens cultural distinctiveness, national identity in dance is lost, and movements and emotional expressions tend to be identical. It is becoming more difficult for the essence of many dances to survive as a result of the concurrent decline of inheritors, rise in senior artists, and fracture in the skills inheritance. This article took Shanxi folk dance as the research object and innovatively analyzed its dance form from a semiotic perspective. Taking Zuoquan Xiaohua Opera as an example, this article explored in detail the symbolic significance and cultural connotations of body posture, movement rhythm, and props such as colorful fans in dance, aiming to address the phenomenon of fading of Shanxi folk dance culture. This article used the histogram of oriented gradient (HOG) to accurately capture data from the database and analyze the symbolic features in dance forms. In Shanxi Province traditional dance analysis, HOG is essential for differentiating the various dance genres in addition to providing a correct depiction of the body characteristics. To successfully separate the stylistic characteristics of various dance forms, HOG can precisely identify the individual symbolic elements in the dance by extracting the direction information of the edges in the image. This method also offers great technological assistance for the research of dance morphology. At the same time, in order to better recognize the features of dance symbols, the transfer learning technology was creatively applied to accelerate the learning process of Shanxi dance form symbol recognition tasks. The research results showed that the semiotic perspective profoundly revealed the aesthetic value of Shanxi folk dance, helping to solve the problem of cultural fading. This study not only enriches the application of semiotic theory in the field of dance art, but also broadens the perspective of dance research, providing strong support for the inheritance and innovation of folk dance art in Shanxi.
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