Feelings about Chinese Dance

Chinese culture, which is the culture of the Chinese nation created by 56 Chinese nationalities***, is one of the three most ancient cultures in the world, or one of the three most cosmopolitan civilizations. It is "a very distinctive culture" compared to the other two types of ancient civilizations, the Greek type, the Middle East, and the Indian regional type. Chinese culture is a grand research topic, and dance culture is a part of it. When we use the "dynamic entry method" to explore Chinese dance culture, we should not only consider the characteristics of Chinese dance culture vertically according to historical development, but also according to important historical events such as the fusion of ancient ethnic groups, the formation of modern ethnic groups, and several major ethnic migrations. In addition, the formation and development of Chinese folk dance culture should be analyzed and researched according to the method of historical intergenerational and regional division.

The three major cultural schools in China also developed from mutual resistance and confrontation to harmony. At the beginning of the Sui and Tang dynasties, Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism were still in a three-legged race. After the Tang and Song dynasties, the three schools of thought and life of every Chinese have a profound impact on the Chinese folk dance culture, but also clearly reflect this feature, many grand folk dance with rituals, all related to religious activities, some remote ethnic minority folk dance is even more so, which is where the spirit of traditional Chinese culture.

Dance is a cultural phenomenon, but also a dynamic image of art, its cultural exploration, naturally, should be in the dynamic, typical environment using a variety of cultural knowledge for research.

The folk dances of various ethnic groups in China have different degrees of accumulation of national aesthetic psychology, customs and other cultural phenomena, and they reflect the formation of ethnic groups, migration and living environment, economic base, social structure and other aspects. The exploration of dance culture is to explore the content and formation of dance as well as activities related to dance. There are many strange cultural phenomena in Chinese folk dances, which often make people feel surprised and interesting. For example, why do some dances take place in certain festivals, venues and atmospheres? Why are the movements of "Yishunbian" danced so beautifully? Why do many ethnic groups have to wear masks to perform folk dance, what is the origin and flow of their relationship with the ancient Chinese exorcism, etc., all belong to the scope of folk dance culture exploration. However, simply relying on the dance itself for research, is unable to figure out its origin and end, but also must rely on sociology, history, ethnology, folklore, linguistics, geography, aesthetics, and anthropology of the results of the research, vertical and horizontal exploration of the formation of folk dance cultural background, to explore their multiple cultural factors, thereby promoting the construction of a new discipline of Chinese folk dance culture.

Folk dance is an important part of a nation's culture, and the research results obtained by using the principles and methods of other disciplines to explore the dance culture horizontally, because there are both images and words, and the two cultures are intermingled in one of the cultural achievements, so it is also valuable to other disciplines, and may be able to make up for the gaps in the research of other disciplines. For example: the same is living in the pastoral area of Mongolia, Tibetans, Tajiks are favorite eagle, the eagle as a symbol of the hero, but in their dance in the image of the eagle, its form, temperament, atmosphere is different: Mongolia highlights the courage, robust; Tibetans show strong, stable, bold; Tajiks are light, free, so-called an eagle three states.

The image of the eagle in the Mongolian dance is the artistic sublimation of the momentum and spirituality of the herdsmen living in the vast grasslands, reflecting the heroic spirit of the unrelenting. Eagle in the minds of the Tibetan people is a god bird, people think that the eagle inhabits in the scarcely visited high risk rock end, and close to the sky, with the gods, with divine power and spirituality. Tibetan custom of sky burial, also with the eagle can bring the soul of the dead to the sky psychology. Tajik folk dance, although also the eagle's momentum, demeanor, the eagle's reverence and envy of the psychological integration of the performance, but the rhythm is distinctive, chic style. Whether it is the eagle jumping up and down, or rocking up, from low to high continuous rotation, all seem incomparably light and sprightly, which and the Tajiks live in the Pamir Plateau Silk Road, folk dance in the preservation of the cultural heritage of the ancient Western region of the music and dance 0 related. Because the eagle in folk dance is endowed with human nature, with noble and steady character, so people perform the image of the eagle with reverence.

Another example is that the Dai and Tibetan people, who love the peacock as a symbol of good fortune, happiness and beauty, use dance to express the peacock. The former mainly uses props to express the beautiful dynamics of the peacock or play the peacock princess and other beautiful and touching mythological stories, accompanied by elephant-footed drums, cymbals and sharp gongs; the latter do not use props, and often sing and dance in a way of questioning and answering, and dancing with their sleeves up and down.

The above common dance cultural phenomena such as "one eagle, three states" and "two kinds of peacocks" are due to the differences in national character, psychology, history, natural environment, and religious beliefs, and must be studied through various disciplines to find out their cultural backgrounds. Comparative studies must be conducted through various disciplines in order to find out their cultural backgrounds and cultural heritage. The results of this dynamic research are of reference significance to aesthetics, folklore and ethnology.