The Tentative Research Into The Singing And Dancing During The Song Dynasty

After experiencing the involute situation, China went to Song Dynasty. By that time, politics and economy developed and got some new condition and trait, which lead the deep change of the whole society. These changes affected not only culture but also dancing and singing, and eventually resulted in different dancing and singing way that based on succeeding the previous conventional way. The dancing and singing in Song Dynasty altered from noble to common customs. The comprehensive mode and stable form of dancing and singing resulted from this particular time. Meanwhile, developing with minority dancing and singing, and other art form which including drama and play, dancing and singing in Song Dynasty had special development trace and direction.This essay summarizes and reviews the development of dancing and singing during Nan Song and Bei Song (includes dancing and singing during Liao, Jin and Xi Xia Dynasty) based on adopting researching, articles, compare, statistic and analysis etc, and also focuses on studying some important issues of development of dancing and singing in Song Dynasty, including develop trend, art characteristics, the communication with other minority, filtering other art form and development characteristics. The purpose of the essay is to tell the situation of development of dancing and singing clearly, to ensure essentiality of the development in Chinese history of dancing and singing, thus lead to understand the history of Chinese antiquity dancing and singing, and the alter and transit course of music culture in Song Dynasty.