What are the characteristics of the Dry Dance, one of the "six small dances" in ancient China?

When the dry dance is performed, there is a distinction between civil and military officers, with the civil officer holding the feather and the military officer holding the shield and axe. The "object dance" (dance with a long handle decorated with colorful silk and dance), "Feather Dance" (bird feathers), "Royal Dance" (colorful bird feathers), "Banner Dance" (banner tail), "Dry Dance" (also known as the "Soldier Dance", the shield).

Before the ancient mankind has not yet been created, people use movements, gestures, expressions to convey various information and emotional communication, visible dance originated in life, with other art categories do not have, only the dance has a unique charm.

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The history of the Gan Dance can be traced back to the Zhou Dynasty period, during which the Gan Dance was mainly a musical and dance textbook used to educate the sons and daughters of nobles, and was sometimes used in certain sacrificial occasions, and together with the Objects Dance, the Feather Dance, the Imperial Dance, the Banner Dance, the Gan Dance, and the Human Dance, was called the The six small dances are called the "six small dances".

Compared with the dance produced by the primitive expression of emotional thoughts of the ancestors in the ancient times, with the continuous progress of human society, today's dance has developed into a mature art, closely related to other art disciplines and closely linked.

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