本篇選取台灣藝陣-家將類陣頭中之一支「官將首」的發展歷程進行討論。有感於台灣本土意識抬頭,對於傳統元素重視愈增,需求愈大,卻往往還是分不清台灣多元的「神將」文化,認為只要有開臉的就是「八家將」,混肴其宗教意涵並做出錯誤的介紹。以「官將首」為例,一些職業陣頭為了豐富其陣容,一窩蜂的組陣,卻與發源地的陣頭相差甚遠,甚至有了不同的主神、角色成為另一種新興的陣頭。而這種新興的陣頭,也被精緻化藝術陣頭表演團體採用,搬上舞台並且出國表演,造成「最常見(新興陣頭)」與「書上寫的(發源陣頭)」完全是兩回事的窘境。國內近年來許多藝陣匯演的活動,對於「官將首」的介紹,也面臨如此問題。當台灣人自己都不能清楚分辨其中的差異性,甚至表演者不知道自己表演的內容或是無從解釋、介紹為何時,又如何搬上舞台將正確的訊息傳達給國人及世界各地的觀眾?本篇希望藉從新莊發源的官將首陣頭,將目前普遍於廟會遶境場合及表演團體舞台所呈現的官將首陣頭做一區隔與紀錄,對於台灣目前混雜的各類「官將首」陣頭現況有進一步的了解。
This essays is mainly discuss status of Guan Jian Shou. due to the fact that the uprising of Taiwanese consciousness, the importance of the essence to this tradition has been increasingly noticed, but still vague and unknown 「Shian Jian」’s culture by face painting means 「Ba Jia Jian」which misunderstood its culture definition then leads to wrongly introduction. take 「Guan Jian Shou」for example, in order to make zhentou more abundant some professional zhentou make their way to establish various zhentou but the essence are far from the originate, some even create a different god/character which makes it into a newly zhentou. this newly developed zhentou are being adopted by some organizations and performing abroad making a totally awkward situation that "the commonly new zhentou" and the "originated zhentou" are totally two different story. recently some performing activities are facing the same situation during the instructing「Guan Jian Shou」. how can we sending the correct messages to our people and worldwide while we can’t clearly distinguish the differences between these two! this article wishes to present you a clearer concept and differences the originate Sinjhuang Guan jiang shou zhentou from the performing groups commonly touring around Taiwan temples.