The "China Classical Dance" we are talking about now is the "China Classical Dance" which was developed from China traditional opera and martial arts after the founding of New China. China traditional opera and martial arts are the basis of establishing classical dance training. China ancient dance was very developed and reached its peak in the Tang Dynasty. After the Yuan and Ming Dynasties, it gradually declined, and it remained in the drama in the Qing Dynasty and modern times.
China Classical Dance is a modern dance. In 1950s, it inherited the traditional essence of court dance, traditional opera dance and martial arts, and drew lessons from the norms and arrangements of foreign arts such as ballet and modern dance, and created a complete dance system with China's aesthetic thoughts.
There are dance works such as Lotus Lantern, Knife Meeting, Rain on Silk Road, Dream of Red Mansions, Qishan in Feng Ming, Mulan Fragrance, and dance dramas such as Moonlight on a Spring River, Lotus Dance and Flying. In recent years, dance forms in China operas, martial arts, cave tomb murals, portrait bricks, ancient poems and documents have been widely collected, and the "body rhyme" of classical dance was developed in the 1980s, which greatly enriched the expressive ability of classical dance and provided materials for further improving the training and performance system of classical dance.
China classical dance emphasizes the coordination of "hand, eye, body, method and step", which is similar to China opera. It divides the form into four aspects: form and spirit, strength and rhythm, and requires the principles of "unity of form and spirit", "unity of body and mind" and "unity of inside and outside".
In the dance, there is rigidity in softness, full of charm, unique style and strong appeal.