Chinese classical dance repertoire () is an important stage in the development of Chinese classical dance.

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Chinese classical dance has an extremely long history. Its origins can be traced back to ancient Chinese court dances or folk dances of more distant times. To the beginning of the Zhou Dynasty, to the Han, the two Jin Dynasty and even the Tang Dynasty five generations of the court set up a special music and dance institutions.

Centralization and training of professional music and dance personnel, and popular in the folk self-indulgent dance and religious dance and even foreign dances to organize, research, processing and development, the formation of the court dance.

Such as the Zhou Dynasty's "six generations of dance" (including the "Cloud Gate", "salty pool", "Dashao", "Daxia", "Dapin", "Dawu" six music and dance), the Tang Dynasty's "Nine Parts of the Music", "Ten Parts of the Music", "sitting in the Department of the Kabuki", "Department of the Music Kabuki", "Daqu", and so on, a variety of different colors, and each lead the way.

Chinese court dance, is the successive rulers to enjoy pleasure, an important tool to sing the praises of women's music.

Because of the court dance to the ruler's aesthetic interests and creation, part of the work inevitably exists in style, content on the negative; but most of them are still mostly by artists in the Chinese folk dance based on the creation of out of the traditional Chinese art, so there is no lack of Chinese art of the exquisite place.

After the Song and Yuan Dynasties, due to the frequent wars and cultural destruction, the development of dance was also affected, and many famous dances of the Han and Tang dynasties were lost.

The Song dynasty dance, which was formed on the basis of traditional dance, gradually replaced the art of song and dance with the formation and development of opera. In the Yuan Dynasty, the court music and dance and folk songs and dances, and even "white opera", "burlesque", "corner of the theater" and other combinations, gradually formed the art form of opera.