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What are the generalizations of Vietnamese drama and dance?

Drama art inherits and develops the essence of a long national cultural and artistic tradition. In the course of hundreds of years' development, in order to express the content and shape the characters, a complete dance movement system and human aesthetic laws have gradually formed, and at the same time, an external form coordinated with stories and singing has been formed, which has artistic characteristics different from ordinary folk dances. As one of the important means of artistic expression, dance also plays an important role and position in traditional Chinese opera performance. Drama dance is a kind of performance form that combines drama with dance movements. In drama and dance, every actor's actions have prescribed procedures and meanings. The movement requires that the arms do not shake, the shoulders do not move, the skirt does not come loose, the toes do not show, fast but not chaotic, steady but not slow. They are agile and need to stay beautiful. Dance is full of emotion, rhythm, hierarchy and discipline, and basically focuses on expressing dramatic stories. Drama widely absorbs Vietnamese folk music and dance, and many local operas formed from feudal society to modern times have evolved directly from folk songs and dances around the country. Many stylized dance movements in Vietnamese dramas are similar to those in China's dramas, such as horse riding, horse racing, archery and boating. However, all kinds of somersaults in China's plays are rarely seen in Vietnamese drama and dance. Some basic stage forms in traditional Vietnamese drama were not basically fixed until the19th century, such as walking a line, taking a T-step, dancing back and forth, etc. The drama has a clear rhythm of dance, a combination of dynamic and static, and tells stories in the form of dance, which is deeply loved by Vietnamese audiences. The combination of singing and dancing in the dramas of the two countries is both singing and dancing, which is similar to the characteristic of "no song, no dance and no song" in Kunqu Opera.