Folk dance and its characteristics

Folk dance and its characteristicsMostly singing and dancing group dance, dance movements in a variety of forms, each with national and local characteristics. It is self-indulgent, improvisational and stable.

Folk dance originated in human labor life, it is created by the people themselves, the performance of a national or regional cultural traditions, living customs and people's spiritual outlook of the mass dance activities, so also known as the "folk dance".

***The same characteristics:

1, self-indulgence. Action steps are relatively simple and refined, easy for the masses to grasp. In the family, the village in a unique way to pass on the inheritance of the unique way, the nature of its performance is often closely linked to the mass of self-entertainment activities. Many kinds of folk dances can be formed into a large-scale dance of thousands of people.

2, improvisation. Folk dance movement posture normative weakness, variability is strong, in the general consistent pace, movement, rhythm, rhyme, different dancers can do a variety of improvisation.

3, stability. Because it is often circulated within a specific range, little influence from the outside world, although in constant change and development, but its style characteristics are relatively stable, slow to change.

Development Overview:

China's history has created 56 brotherly ethnic groups living in the vast territory of China today. Different ecological environments and different historical and cultural backgrounds have enabled China's many ethnic groups to develop into today's unique human conditions and landscapes with their own languages, customs, cultures, religious beliefs, and so on, making China "a country of pluralism and unity, with the Han Chinese nation as the main body and the 55 ethnic minorities **** together".

Over the past 50 years since the founding of the People's Republic of China, due to the unity, friendship and mutual exchanges among brotherly ethnic groups, each ethnic group has gained rapid development on the basis of the original, making China's overflowing ethnic flower bed even more bright and colorful, and even more rich in attractive and magical charms.

Singing and dancing is a kind of art form that human beings are born with, instinctively. This kind of physical gestures to express, express emotions, convey production skills and information behavior, there is no geographical, national boundaries, race and ethnicity, is a human ****common physical language and spiritual perception. Different ethnic groups, due to the living environment, production methods and religious culture and other differences, and has tens of thousands of from the content to the form, from the rhythm to the style of each colorful, colorful national folk dance.