What is the beginning period of Chinese classical dance

The beginning period of Classical Chinese Dance is Pre-Qin.

The main branch of Chinese dance. Originating in ancient China, it incorporates movements and modeling from traditional Chinese martial arts, acrobatics, and opera, with special emphasis on the role of the eyes in performance.

Characteristics: Classical dance emphasizes the body rhythm of "form and spirit, body and mind, internal and external unity". Charm is the soul of classical Chinese dance. God is in the middle and the form is outside, "leading the form with God, passing the God with the form", the idea of emotion creates the real connotation of the body rhyme. Most of the music of Classical Chinese Dance is played by Chinese unique national instruments, such as guzheng, erhu, pipa, etc. The costumes of Classical Chinese Dance are ancient and colorful. Classical Chinese dance costumes are ancient, according to the specific requirements of the dance also has its own characteristics, the Han and Tang dances mostly use the traditional Han clothes.

Direction of development:

One, the inheritance of the palace dance-based, those who originally danced to the king's court ministers, the palace collapsed, in the folk heritage, and later into the dance school, becoming the source of Chinese classical dance.

Two, in view of the achievements of Western dance, mainly ballet, reference to take, and look back at the differences between the existing Chinese dance and Western dance, retraining. This orientation, the formation of the Chinese classical dance basic training materials, specific content of the basic training, but how much to take the Western dance, how much to preserve the Chinese dance, as well as which movements are Chinese, and which are not, will give rise to controversy.

Three, through the literary description and painting depiction, to speculate on the lost ancient dance appearance, re-learning and restoration, this orientation, due to the record of literature and painting can not be complete, so at best only similar, but always for the Chinese classical dance to provide a new component, still has its value.