The appearance of filament dance can be traced back to the period of Emperor Gaozu. Liu Bang, the Emperor Gaozu, loved folk songs and dances at that time, so he introduced these folk songs and dances into the palace and carried out large-scale court activities such as court sacrifices.
During the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Yuefu institutions were expanded. The members of Yuefu, led by Yuefu coordinator, collected folk music and dance in a large area, and * * * included 3 14 local songs and poems from Wu, Chu, Yan, Dai, Qi and Zheng. In addition, Yuefu has expanded a large number of performers. Emperor Wu's father-in-law already has musicians and dancers.
In the day-to-day performance, Chinese dance constantly absorbs excellent cultures from all over the country, with changing angles, increasingly rich dance content and increasing dance types. At this time, silk dance with strong religious color appeared.
Characteristics of silk long dance
Long silk dance is a traditional folk dance of Han nationality, belonging to a kind of classical dance. Filament dance based on Dunhuang art has beautiful dance posture, rich connotation and diverse aesthetic characteristics.
(1) Service points
The dance action of long silk dance is completed by waving and throwing the silk ribbon in the opponent's hand, and the ribbon is undoubtedly the top priority of the dancer's overall clothing. In different periods, the costume image in filament dance also has different changes. Take the dancer's costume in the famous contemporary long silk solo dance "Flying" in China as an example, and its shape is very similar to the image of "Flying" in the Tang Dynasty in Dunhuang murals.
At this time, the Tang Dynasty was in its heyday, and cultural exchanges and integration were very popular. The characters in Flying are light, graceful and graceful, all of which show the national cultural characteristics of this period.
(2) Morphological characteristics
1. Long silk dance mainly changes the movements through the changes of dancers' hands, which requires dancers' hands to have rich images. There are lotus style, blooming style and orchid style. With the rhythm of music, the dancer's body posture changes, and the dancer's hand posture also changes, with gentle movements and soft curves.
2. Long silk dance is a very gentle dance. The dancer's posture is light and soft when dancing, and her figure has the characteristics of curve, showing an "S" shape.
The foot position in the long silk dance is very special, with various states and postures, among which there are mainly small crooked feet, hooked feet and leg lifts on the side of the feet.