Taiwan Traditional Yi-Ge was originated from Mainland China, but it was developed with ancient immigrants from Qing dynasty in Taiwan. Being through different ages, the art form of Yi-Ge has been very unique compared to Mainland China.
The second chapter of the thesis contains Yi-Ge as one of the most common folk art parade in Taiwan temple fiesta or festival activity. Being through the Japanese occupation, recovery from the occupation till now, the traditional Yi-Ge competitions playing story characters by real people are still retained. The most famous one is Yi-Ge parade of Ma Zu’s birthday in Bei Gang area. This chapter will treat the historical factor of the phenomenon.
Chapter three & four discusses the beauty of Taiwan traditional Yi-Ge by inner and outer side from perspective of art research.Chapter three analyzes Tai-Ge of Qin dynasty, Shi Yi Ge during the Japanese occupation, and Yi-Ge vehicle formed by the changing of transportation after recovering from the occupation. The shape of Yi-Ge vehicle was created into different kinds of Yi-Ge appearance by Yi-Ge artists with carrier’s size, mixed with traditional craft and color painting.Even the paper puppets in Yi-Ge appearance construction imitate the spirit of temple architecture, becoming a movable classic architecture.
Chapter four includes the analysis of Yi-Ge theme layout and relations among characters. At the same time, the cosmetic modeling design of Yi-Ge characters refer to contemporary popular drama characters’ style. Therefore, the design also reflects the fashion trend of drama’s make-up & costume then. Besides, the chapter four consists of the direction of maintaining traditional Yi-Ge and great worth for reference by the outstanding artist Jin Guo-quan’s award-winning work in Bei-Gang Chao Tien Temple Yi-Ge Competition.
Keyword：Traditional Yi-Ge、The Art of Yi-Ge、Jin Guo-quan