The Historical Significance of Traditional Music and Dance

First of all, in terms of the historical inheritance of culture and art, the Chinese nation has a long tradition of dance education.

There are many historical records about dance education in ancient China.

Therefore, at least in the Shun era, China had already implemented music and dance education in schools.

By the beginning of this week, dance education has been customized and become a spectacular scenery.

At that time, there were clear teaching requirements for children of different ages: "ten years, three years, learning music, reciting songs and dancing spoons." .

The book Yanzi Chunqiu contains Confucius' "Singing and Inspiring to Gather Disciples", which gathered many disciples in the form of singing and dancing. It can be seen that the song and dance education at that time was also quite influential and appealing among the lower classes.

At the same time, it also proves that even in the ancient cultural atmosphere more than two thousand years ago, dance education is an indispensable and important part of ordinary people's education.

On the other hand, contemporary dance education has gone into a misunderstanding, and the value of dance education in China has long been underestimated.

Many people think that the cultivation of dance ability is only necessary for a few people who will engage in dance work in the future, and it is only an ornament for ordinary students.

Dance has not been included in the compulsory course in primary education until university education in our country, and only a few schools with better conditions have added some dance activities in extracurricular activities.

Even in some remote or underdeveloped areas, except for professional education, other art education is zero, so there is no dance education.

Even in some developed cities, there is a phenomenon of not paying attention to popularizing dance education.

The most direct reason for this phenomenon is that the role and position of dance education in the whole national education system has not been determined.

In fact, in dance education, dance ability is also the ability to control limbs to complete movements, that is, body movement intelligence, which is an important intelligence in itself and a part of basic education. Dance activities have a very positive contribution to the development of multiple intelligences.

Dancing ability can greatly promote the study of other subjects.

Therefore, it is necessary to restore the tradition of dance education of the Chinese nation for thousands of years, that is, to implement universal, formal and orderly dance education for the educated, starting from early childhood education to higher education, and taking dance as a means to strengthen the body and cultivate temperament; An independent discipline, which not only develops people's artistic personality characteristics, but also cultivates people's concept of collective team, has been solemnly incorporated into the national education system.

Only in this way can dance education ascend the elegant hall of higher education and occupy its due place in the field of education.