The Relationship between Dance History, Ceremony and Music in China

The Relationship between Rites and Music in China Dance History: Since ancient times, the traditional "Rites and Music" culture in China has deeply influenced people's values, ways of thinking and political ideas. Its original meaning is "teach with propriety and teach with joy." Rites are the classics of heaven and the meaning of earth, and they are the most important order and rules between heaven and earth. Music is a beautiful voice between heaven and earth and a manifestation of morality. In the history of dance development in China, we have always attached importance to the educational function of music and dance, so as to promote the etiquette of political society.

China classical dance is a kind of dance with China characteristics, which not only inherits China's previous dances, but also absorbs the training methods of ballet. The movements and elements of China classical dance contain the traditional cultural spirit of Chinese rites and music. This paper focuses on the integration of China traditional "ritual and music" culture and classical dance classroom teaching, emphasizes the cultivation of students' dance cultural connotation, pays attention to improving students' humanistic quality and enhances their sense of belonging to traditional ritual and music culture.

The embodiment of traditional ritual and music culture in classical dance

The traditional ritual and music culture in China involves the religion, politics, ethics, system, folk customs and art (music and dance) in ancient China. Confucius' thought of "rites and music", which originated in the Spring and Autumn Period, advocates an ideological system with "benevolence" as the core, and "rites" aims to cultivate "externalization" and standardize people's code of conduct; "Music" can cultivate "inner" and improve people's ideological realm. In the long history of our country, the rulers formed the social behavior norms at that time through "rites and music", thus strengthening their own leadership.

After social changes, the culture of rites and music has been continuously inherited and developed, and many excellent thoughts of rites and music have been formed, which has very important moral education value. The culture of "rites and music" teaches people to cultivate self-cultivation, understand books and reason, and understand humility. Through these excellent qualities, they carried forward the tradition of advocating etiquette, respecting harmony and stressing kindness in China's rites and music.

The court music and dance, female music, elegant music and ritual music in the history of China belong to the category of China classical dance, which means that classical dance naturally contains rich traditional ritual and music culture. For example, the "Six Dynasties Dance" of the Zhou Dynasty is a ritual dance of China's ancient emperors, Tang, Yu, Xia, Shang and Saturday, praising the achievements of the rulers; For example, the classical dance "Qin Wang Dian Bing" shows the heroic spirit of China warriors galloping on the battlefield and going forward bravely, and also contains the great spirit of the Chinese nation.

For example, the classical dance drama "Tage" perfectly interprets the dynamic trend of classical dance, which is not presented by human body lines, but embodied in the "rhyme" and "momentum" of classical dance, showing the charm of classical culture. This also shows that the focus of "ritual and music culture" is not on people's appearance, but on people's inner cultivation, from "inside" to "outside", so as to achieve both internal and external cultivation and cultivate excellent talents for the society.