Does anyone know the history of the origin and development of Chinese dance?

Dance is one of the oldest art forms of mankind. In ancient times, it served as a tool for primitive people to communicate their thoughts and feelings. Its origin came with human productive labor. Action and rhythm and labor are closely related, no matter what kind of labor, human hands and feet always have to be active, hands to beat, feet to step on, in some kind of action in a continuous process of repetition, it produces a regular rhythm, and then accompanied by shouting or striking stones and sticks, the most primitive dance appeared.

In the primitive tribes of mankind, the dance has the whole society, in their organization of loose and unstable life situation, need to have a kind of social inductance to make them unite together, the dance is the important means to produce this inductance. Whether it is caracal hunting or war, is the whole tribe together, so the primitive dance is always collective. Tribes in order to have a *** with the sign, which appeared totem. Totem not only as a symbol of tribal distinction, but also a primitive religious beliefs. Whenever you pray or celebrate, you dance to the totem, which is called totem dance. Totem dance exists in primitive peoples all over the world. North American Indian tribes dance the bison dance, they are superstitious bison and their own tribes have blood relations, jump this dance bison will appear and let them caracal hunting: Australian natives jump their totem snake dance, dancers tattooed face tattoos, as a memorial to their tribal ancestors. The dragon and the wind were the totems of the ancient Chinese peoples. Due to the various tribes to merge with each other, a totem can no longer represent the whole tribe dares to alliance of the *** with the ancestors, so the child kinds of totem features, such as the deer's horns, the snake's body, the fish's scales, the eagle's claws synthesized into the image of the dragon, with the peacock, the pheasant and other features synthesized into the image of the phoenix, they represent the supreme ruler of the ancestor of a family name as the "emperor of virtue" and the "Tiancheng" logo. It was only later that the dragon and the wind were taken as symbols of the birth of the Chinese nation and the beginning of its culture.

Primitive society dissolved, mankind entered the slave society, from then on, totem worship and witchcraft superstition began to combine. As a result, the witch dance was created. Totem worship and witchcraft, although both are primitive religious beliefs, but the nature of the two are different, the form of activities are not the same. Totem is the idol of primitive human worship, and witch is as a bridge between man and God; totem dance is a social collective dance, and witch dance is the performance of the witch. In witchcraft, song and dance were utilized as means of witchcraft to create a mysterious atmosphere to ensure the success of witchcraft. In terms of dance development, the witch dance is a big step forward from the primitive totem dance, as it moves from a rougher group dance to a professional, individual dance performance, and it also shows mythological characters and stories. In the Chinese state of Chu during the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods, the Witch Dance was very prevalent, on a grand scale, and quite rich in form and content.

Toward the end of the slave society, the witch dance gradually developed in the direction of entertaining the king and entertaining the species. Male witches have begun to change to witches. From then on, the witch has lost the original status of worship. To the feudal society, the court dance large-scale development; divided into the nature of ancestor worship music and dance and feast and drink music and dance. China's Hanwei and Sui and Tang dynasties, is the development of court dance two peaks. The court has a specialized management of the collection of music and dance of the House of Music, Taishang Temple, Pear Park and other institutions, training and cultivation of court music and dance performers and musicians. Emperor Tang Xuan and Li Houzhu of the Southern Tang Dynasty and other emperors also personally participated in the preparation of music and dance. Oriental countries such as India, Japan, Korea, etc., the same is also dedicated to the royal family to enjoy the music and dance and dance kabuki. In Europe, ancient Greece, Rome's court dance was also very prosperous, since the fall of You Rome, the whole of Europe for the rule of clerical power, recreational dance by the medieval church is considered immoral and prohibited, but with the secular nature of the folk dance is still independent of the development of the religious dance, until after the Renaissance, the court dance to regain.

The court dance after the 17th century in the West was a recreational dance of a social nature, and the emperor also participated in the dance. This dance is absorbed from the folk if thousands of dance forms, by the dancer to transform and teach, to adapt to the social rituals in the court, which is the origin of the Western social dance.

Ballet is developed from the European court dance, first belonging to the court in the exclusive performance, and later transferred to the theater to perform. It developed a set of technical specifications and requirements, so it is called classical ballet. Classical ballet is the highest skill requirements and the most demanding form of performance dance norms of the dance, it spreads widely. early 20th century, modern dance in the Youfang rise, this form of dance is initially affected by the Romanticism trend, and later in the modernist ideas under the influence of a number of dance factions. Its general tendency is to oppose the traditional concept of art, advocate innovation and freedom, and establish a set of their own performance system and theoretical system. Modern dance is more popular in Germany, the United States, Britain, Japan and other countries.

In the history of dance development, folk dance is often ignored, in fact, only folk dance is the mainstream of dance development. Folk dance is the crystallization of the wisdom of the people, it is a never-ending source of dance. Successive rulers have known to folk dance to absorb nutrients, but they forked every possible way to ban the activities of folk dance. Folk dance has a long history, it is not banned to stop the development of the court is not absorbed to change its inherent local characteristics, it is always a colorful and colorful style

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