Pre - Qin And Han, Six Dance Literary Studies

This dissertation try to find out more facts of dance by collecting and reseaching the works of dance literature during West-Zhou Dynasty to South Dynasty,studying the cultural role of dance and relationship between dance and literature.The text falls into three parts.In the first part,it is said that except for the odes of Big-weapon Dance, one of the Six Ritual Dances, there were lyrics of other five dances which have never been linked before with the works in the Odes part of The Book of Songs;among the Folk Song part of it,there are some works which decribing dancing performances,the annotation of these poems made by scholars in different times showed low cultural standing of dance in feudal society.The author still analysed and expounded the concrete pattern and the features of the sacrificial rites depicted in the Nine songs in the Songs of the South. In the second part, further explain is made to the two texts recording singing,dancing and lyrics simultaneously,which has unexplained for more than one thousand years.In the author's opinion,Gong Mo Dance marked advancing of narrative power of Han dance,as a result of prosperity of dances and narrative poems in Han Dynasty. In this part,the author also analysed the feeling characteristics of the habit of improvisational dancing and singing.In the third part,the author made philological studies of literature works of more than twenty kinds of dances.searching for the emergence,development,and performing pattera,studying the influence on pure literature exerted by dance literature.