What kinds of dance does Chinese dance include

Chinese dance includes three kinds of dance: classical dance, folk dance and contemporary dance.

1. Classical dance

refers to the traditional folk dance on the basis of successive generations of professional workers to refine, organize, process, create, and after a longer period of artistic practice test, passed down is considered to have a certain exemplary significance and classical style characteristics of the dance.

Chinese classical dance is a mixture between opera and dance, that is to say, it has not yet completely metamorphosed from opera; calling it opera, it has already removed the most important singing and recitation in opera, and saying that it is dance, it still maintains a large number of the original state of opera.

2. Folk Dance

Generally refers to the form of dance produced and circulated in the folk, subject to folk culture, improvisation but relatively stable style, to self-entertainment as the main function.

3. Contemporary Dance

Mainly refers to the creation and performance of traditional Chinese dance materials and foreign art materials that are widely absorbed and used in an unconventional way. The works of this dance genre pursue distinctive artistic images and rich national aesthetic interests, reflecting China's contemporary hot social life and the spirit of the times.

The main branch of Chinese dance

Originally from ancient China, it combines the movements and shapes of traditional Chinese martial arts, acrobatics, and opera, with special attention paid to the role of the eyes in the performance, and it is a general term for Chinese classical dance and Chinese folk dance, and it has been used by middle schools and colleges and universities to refer to the dance disciplines that have not yet been subdivided into the professional classes, mostly used by amateurs to refer to the dance disciplines. Most of the time, it is used by amateurs to refer specifically to classical Chinese dance.

Classical Chinese dance is a revival of ancient dance, a revival of opera dance, and a revival of thousands of years of Chinese dance tradition. Chinese classical dance was born in the slave Du Hui. By the time of the Qin and Han Dynasties, it had already formed certain characteristics: the form is gorgeous, the technique is superb, the sleeves are long and thin, the flow is light, and the strength and flexibility are combined.

Spring and Autumn and Warring States period of the beautiful dance of Xi Shi and the Han Dynasty good for the warped sleeves and folded waist dance of Lady Qi, light as a swallow can do the palm dance Zhao Feiyan she is in the people on the tray dance, visible skill. These ancient well-known dancers and hundreds of unnamed dance creators. For the improvement of Chinese classical dance skills and the formation of style laid the foundation.