Cultural characteristics:
Classical dance attaches great importance to the charm of "having both form and spirit, integrating body and mind, and integrating inside and outside". Charm is the soul of China classical dance. God is in the middle, form is outside, and the thought and emotion of "leading the form with god and conveying the spirit with form" have created the true connotation of body rhyme.
The music of China classical dance mostly uses the music played by China's unique national musical instruments, such as guzheng, erhu and pipa. China's classical dance costumes are antique and have their own characteristics according to the specific requirements of dance. Most dances in the Han and Tang Dynasties used traditional costumes from China.
Development history:
China has a long and splendid dance history and culture. As far as the dance history of China is concerned, there are a lot of records and remains, whether it is historical relics, written historical materials or the specific performance forms of traditional Chinese opera. In the History of Dance in China, the origin of the primitive dance "Dance" is systematically discussed, as well as the performance form, dance sequence, function and ideological content of dances in past dynasties.
China classical dance has a long history. Its origin can be traced back to the court dance in ancient China or the folk dance in more distant times.
Since the Zhou Dynasty, specialized music and dance institutions have been set up in the courts of the Han, Jin and Tang Dynasties to train professional music and dance personnel to organize, research, process and develop popular folk self-entertainment dances, religious dances and even foreign dances, thus forming court dances. Among them, six kinds of dances in the Zhou Dynasty (including Yunmen, Xianchi, Dashao, Daxia, Dabo and Dawu) are colorful and unique.
China court dance is an important tool for rulers to entertain themselves and sing praises, with female music as the mainstay. Because the palace dance is created with the aesthetic taste of the rulers, some of its works inevitably have the charm of style and the negativity of content; But most of them are created by artists on the basis of Chinese folk dances, so there is no lack of exquisiteness in China's traditional arts. After Song and Yuan Dynasties, due to frequent wars, culture was destroyed and the development of dance was also affected. Many famous dances in the Han and Tang Dynasties were lost.