Development Trends of Ancient Chinese Dance

Chinese dances from the primitive society to the feudal society period are collectively called ancient Chinese dances. In the long historical process, it has gone through a number of stages of development, evolution, and gradually formed a unique Chinese form and charm of the oriental dance art. 1, Chinese primitive dance In the primitive era, dance is the basic form of culture. All activities such as hunting, war, or sex, reproduction, as well as sacrifices or prayers, were carried out through dance. Its main forms were dances about hunting and labor. On the Neolithic rock paintings in the Yinshan area of Inner Mongolia, images of hunting dances are depicted. People are dressed as flying birds, goats, foxes and other animals. Some heads are adorned with antlers and feathers, and some with tail ornaments. The emergence of this dance is closely related to hunting. 2, set the ancient dance of the great success of the Zhou Dynasty Ritual Zhou Dynasty dance is the first peak of Chinese music and dance culture, its music and education ideas in the pre-Qin Confucian writings have been the systematic development of the formation of the body and mind of a clear monism of music and dance aesthetics.