What music and dance in China Tang Dynasty?

Seven music, nine music, ten music in the program included, mostly around the national folk music and dance, Hong to the name of the place, the name of the country for the club name, thus preserving a fairly strong national and local color. Although they are used in the court feasts, ceremonies, but from the people. Its development, additions, deletions and changes in the situation is this:

Sui-era Kai Huang (581 to 600 AD) developed the first seven music, including one, "National Kabuki"; two, "Ching Shang Kabuki" (i.e., the traditional music and dance of the Han Dynasty); three, "Goryeo Kabuki"; four, "Tianzhu Kabuki"; five, "Anguo Kabuki"; six, "Kouzi Kabuki"; seven, "Wenkang Kabuki" (ritual Chinese, Han Dynasty masked dance).

In the middle of Emperor Yang's Daye (605 to 618 AD), "Kangguo Kabuki" and "Shule Kabuki" were added, making it a nine-part music. And the Qingle was listed as the first part, and the Kanguo Kabuki was changed to the Xilang Kabuki.

At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, Emperor Gaozu Wude (618 Ting 626 A.D.) inherited the nine-part music of the Sui Dynasty, and the music and dance systems were followed. To the Tang Emperor Taizong Zhenguan eleven years (637 years), the abolition of the "Li Hua"; Zhenguan sixteen years in November, he feasted a hundred liu, adding the "Gaochang K伎"，Since then, it became ten music, including one, "Yan music"; two, "Qing music"; three, "Xiliang music"; four, "Tianzhu music"; five, "Goryeo music"; six, "Guezhi music"; seven, "Anguo music"; eight, "Shule music"; nine, "Kangguo music"; Ten, "Gaochang Le".

From the arrangement of the ten music, in addition to the "Yan music" and "Qing music", the other eight are brothers and foreign music and dance. It seems that foreign music and dance seems to account for a lot, but it is not. As the traditional Han music and dance "Qingle", in Wu Zetian (690 to 705), the court has been partially lost, but still preserved sixty-three songs. The other eight foreign music and dances totaled **** but more than twenty pieces, accounting for only one-third of the Qingle. Therefore, in the arrangement of the Ministry of Music, "Qingle" only accounted for one, but it includes a program is quite rich.

At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, the music and dances of brotherly nations and foreign countries, most of which were brought together in the Central Plains in their original forms, were gradually absorbed by each other and melted into one another. Nine music, ten music to some extent reflects the general trend of this dance development.

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