Deviations: the Circumstances and the Pains of Tujia's Sayeerhe in the Contemporary Transformation

Sayeerhe,a funeral ritual dance of Tujia is undergoing a profound modern transformation. With the deviations of the perform motivation,the performers,the performance costumes,the performing forms,the performing time and the place and many other factors,the dance is deriving from its original folk shape,performance folk shapes,public square shapes,teaching shapes and acting shapes. The deviations make "Sayeerhe"experience the confusion of the transformation or the wave of pains between modern shapes and traditional shapes,and eventually it will form the diversified developing trend.