Dance is a performing art, which uses the body to complete various elegant or difficult movements, usually accompanied by music, and rhythmic movements are the main means of expression. It usually uses music and other props. Dance itself has multiple social meanings and functions, including sports, socialization, courtship, sacrifice, etiquette and so on.
Before the origin of human civilization, dance was very important in ceremony, etiquette, celebration and entertainment. Dance appeared in China five thousand years ago. It was born in slave society and developed into a certain feature in Qin and Han Dynasties. Art is a big family of human aesthetic activities, and its members include literature, fine arts, music, dance, drama, movies, folk art and acrobatics.
Various arts reflect social life and express people's thoughts and feelings, but the reflection and expression of art is not the abstract reflection and expression of general concepts, but the reflection and manifestation of individual concrete images and aesthetics. The so-called aesthetic reflection and expression is the artist's aesthetic taste and ideal.
Social life is selected, summarized and processed, and creatively reflected and expressed according to the characteristics and laws of art. In the historical development of society, people have created various art forms. The main difference between these art forms is that they have their own material carriers and different artistic expression means.
The material carrier of literature is language and writing; The material carrier of art is paper, canvas, pigment and oil painting pigment, and its main means of expression are color, line, composition and modeling; The material carrier of music is sound.