英文摘要:The bei-guan culture in the Lan-yang area has been developing for one hundred and eighty years.According to the historical documents, bei-guan spouted in the year of Dao-guang, Cing Dynasty, through the time of Japanese reign and its Japanization over Taiwan it began to progress and was banned for a time by the Colony Government. After the Retrocession of Taiwan, bei-guan was revived and brought to the apex of its development. However, with the economical prosperity in the "70''s" and "80''s",it began to decline and decay due to the structural shifts from the peasant society to the modernization of Taiwan. Bustling procession activities may be the most notable feature of the bei-guan clubs. At the peak of bei-guan development,props such as"embroidered flag","wood-carved banner","paper lantern holder", " drum booth", "gong carrier", "drum stand" and "spring pavilion" gradually became the most significant artefacts for public exhibitions during the procession. In addition to its recreational function to the audiences and demonstrative purposes for bei-guan clubs themselves, these artefacts had also witnessed and carried the factional-transformational conflicts among bei-guan clubs in the Lan-yang area.The substantial purpose of bei-guan artifacts lies in performance; relatively, the connotative and denotative meanings of the bei-guan performance configure the material structures of bei-guan artefacts. This paper considers the artefacts of bei-guan clubs in the Lan-yang area as its point of departure for research. Given the hypothesis-that "the artefacts will live on", the interpretation toward artefact performance is the main purpose of this paper and the subjectivity of the artefacts will also be stressed.Besides, this paper adopts the concept of material culture as its approach: through the basic bibliographical and field study, then the subsequent textual research and interpretation methods from historiography, it is possible to trace back the history of bei-guan performances concerning these artefacts and thus able to analyze, explain,and integrate the materials of bei-一guan artefacts, inducing their genres and performing forms. Furthermore, with this primary knowledge, it is expected to unearth the historical context in which these artefacts were performed, explore their relationship to the social network, realize their performance as a fact and interpret their cultural values.Finally, this paper refers to the new form and the interpretation toward the artefact performance in response of the time change.