What are all kinds of dances?

(1) Folk Dance: Also known as Festival Dance, it is a variety of mass dance activities held by many ethnic groups in China on festive festivals such as weddings, funerals, planting and harvest. In these dance activities, the customs, social features, cultural traditions and national personality characteristics of various ethnic groups are all shown.

(2) Religious sacrificial dance: it is a dance form used for religious and sacrificial activities. Mainly used to pray for the protection of the gods, drive away disasters and diseases, turn evil into good, prosper people and animals, harvest crops, or thank the gods for their gifts; Sacrificial dance is a ritual dance form to sacrifice ancestors.

(3) Social dance: it is a dance activity that people engage in social communication, enhance friendship and contact feelings. Generally, it refers to all kinds of ballroom dancing at the dance.

In addition, the mass dance activities carried out by many ethnic minorities in various festivals in China are mostly social activities for young men and women to exchange freely and choose their spouses. So it can also be said that it is a social dance of all ethnic groups.

(4) Self-entertainment dance: it is a dance activity with the sole purpose of self-entertainment. Use dance to express and vent your feelings.

In the emotional impulse, the aesthetic pleasure is fully satisfied.

(5) Sports Dance: It is a new dance variety that combines dance and sports, exercises the body in an artistic and aesthetic way, and makes the body and mind develop in an all-round and healthy way. For example, various fitness dances, rhythmic gymnastics, discos for middle-aged and elderly people, ice dances, water dances, street dances, swimming dances, sword dances, sword dances, pictographic boxing symbolizing various animals and specific images, and Wuqinxi in China traditional martial arts.

(6) Educational dance: refers to the aesthetic dance activities in schools and kindergartens, which can play a subtle role in cultivating and beautifying people's thoughts, feelings and moral sentiments, cultivating people's unity and friendship, strengthening etiquette and improving physical and mental health.

(7) Square dance: Square dance is also called line dance and square dance. When people dance, they will automatically line up and dance in an orderly way. Square dance can be a good exercise for fitness and entertainment.

Square dance, generally used for morning exercise and evening exercise, is not limited by age, gender, occupation, position and social class. You can jump by many people, in groups or by one person, and the venue can be simplified on the basis of simplicity. Square dance has existed for thousands of years in ancient China. The early square dance was mainly national dance, among which yangko was the most popular.

Extended data

Dancing can make people's figure curve more beautiful, thigh muscles and arm muscles more compact. It is a good way to relieve emotions. Dance is an activity beneficial to physical and mental health, which can enhance physical fitness, make personality cheerful, body soft and muscles fully stimulated.

Dance stimulates muscles in an all-round way, taking into account the head, neck, chest, legs, buttocks and other parts.

For example, jazz dance is more about small joints and muscles, which are not easy to exercise on weekdays. In addition, dance also has the effect of aerobic exercise, so that practitioners can improve the main lung function and achieve the purpose of losing weight.

The rhythm of coherent movements in dance is very fast, and a whole set of movements is coherent and smooth, neat and rhythmic, which is very helpful for the exercise of musical sense and dexterity. And its fun is easy to make people pay attention, pay attention, and ignore exercise fatigue.

The fitness movement of dance is explosive, which has strong development potential for human physical fitness. Because dance mainly revolves around small joints, it can better improve the coordination ability of practitioners. Dance is a very expressive sport. Through dance courses, practitioners cultivate self-confidence and temperament while expressing themselves.