Cultural Identity and Community Resilience: The Role of Ethnic Dance in Maintaining Rural Traditions and History

Abstract

This paper explores the key role of folk dance in maintaining rural traditions, cultural identity and promoting community resilience from a philosophical perspective. Through ontological analysis, it reveals the multiple dimensions of dance as a cultural existence and its identity construction in the relationship between individuals and collectives; from an epistemological perspective, it explores how dance carries cultural memory through physical and non-verbal communication,and realizes the continuity and reflection of cognition in intergenerational inheritance; at the axiological level, it expounds the role of dance in community ethics, aesthetic values and cultural justice, and analyzes its value conflict and reconciliation between tradition and modernity. In practical philosophy, dance embodies the dynamic practice of local cultural revival and the coordination of cultural tension in the context of globalization. Finally, based on dialectics, it proposes the philosophical possibility of folk dance to achieve coexistence and transformation in the wave of traditional culture and modernization. This paper believes that folk dance is not only an important carrier of cultural memory, but also a philosophical practice to achieve the resilience of rural communities and cultural prosperity.