A Study On The Exotic Tendency Of The Music And Dance In The Tang Dynasty

Music and dance culture is an important part of Chinese culture. From the ancient primitive music and dance to the drama and music of Ming and Qing Dynasties, music and dance culture in ancient China has experienced a long process, left many excellent dance works. The Tang Dynasty music and dance because of its outstanding artistic achievement, occupies an important position in the history of ancient Chinese music and dance. Achievements of the Tang Dynasty music and dance, not only thanks to the long music and dance tradition of Chinese nation, but also have closely related with the national excellent music and dance culture from ethnic groups and foreign country.The Tang Dynasty is an era of powerful, free, open, music and dance culture is influenced by The Times atmosphere, and came out of the many new changes in the traditional which focus on:a spate of exotic music and dance began to appear in Tang Dynasty, and with the advent of the era of prosperity to shine. In the gradually prevailed process of exotic music and dance, The Tang dynasty,not only directed absorb its essence as the important content of the Tang Dynasty music and dance culture, but also combines the traditional and foreign, create many dance works which both with Chinese and western style. With the penetration and fusion of exotic dance, music and dance of the Tang Dynasty gradually showing more obvious exotic tendencies, and more novel and unique in form and content, had a profound impact on the development of later music culture.Cultural development tend to reflect the social characteristics of an era, music and dance culture as a prominent representative of the Tang Dynasty culture, also plays such a role. The study of Tang Dynasty music and dance culture which have obvious exotic tendency, both let us recognize the important role of exotic dance in the development process of Tang Dynasty Music and Dance, and reflects the open society of Tang Dynasty, also provide reference and guidance for the development of contemporary music culture and Chinese culture.The first part mainly analyzes the background of exotic tendency. First elaborated the Chinese culture on absorbing foreign culture tradition from the traditional culture angle, then from the perspective of history, this paper introduces from the Zhou Dynasty to the Southern and Northern Dynasties, the introduction of exotic music and dance culture and its development in the central plains region, considered exotic dance and cultural achievements of these into the central plains of the history of inheritance, is one of the important reasons which make Tang Dynasty dance show exotic tendency. After starting from the reality of the Tang Dynasty, analyzes the powerful national strength, the enlightened policy, the fond of ruling class, the artistic charm of exotic music and dance which suitable for era, these factors play an important role in the formation process of the Tang Dynasty music and dance exotic tendency.The second part discusses the performance of exotic tendency though the music, dance, musical instruments, dance clothes four aspects. Yan music is mainstream music in Tang Dynasty, which combined with the exotic Hu music and traditional central plains music, it has a very obvious external characteristics. But as a representative of the ceremony music cultural, gagaku always regarded as an orthodox music, but development to the Tang Dynasty, the song lost the pure and began have Hu Music ingredients. Dance is an art form and accompanied by music, affected by exotic dance,the important dances of the Tang Dynasty-kin dance and soft dance are showed obvious exotic features, in addition, three from Western Dance-Hu Xuan dance, Hu Teng dance and Zhe Zhi dance, also merge in Tang Dynasty dance rich exotic characteristics. The performance of music and dance can’t without the musical instruments, in a wide variety of musical instruments in the Tang Dynasty, the instruments which from outside accounted for a large proportion, the music instrument orchestration in historical text and frescoes, stone material evidence are all reflect the exotic features of the Tang Dynasty musical instruments. In addition to music, dance, musical instruments, the Tang Dynasty dance clothes are also significantly affected by the exotic dance clothes, which are reflected in the historical text and material evidence.The third part focuses on the influence of the Tang Dynasty music and dance exotic tendency in musical life, the spiritual world and the Tang Dynasty poetry produced. On a wide range of exotic dance absorption and integration, not only enriched the content of court music, but also promoted the development of folk music. Meanwhile, the freedom emotional expression of exotic dance, also fill the shortage of music in the spirit world emotional expression functions. In the terms of literary creation, with the development of exotic music and dance, a large number of poetry are created which about exotic music and dance or generated by its lyrical which not only extends the creative theme of the Tang Dynasty poetry, but also enriched the artistic expression of the Tang Dynasty poetry.The conclusion summarizes the full text, pointing out the Tang Dynasty music and dance exotic tendency actually reflect the inclusive spirit in Chinese culture, but also further discusses the reference and guiding significance of this exotic tendency on contemporary music culture and the whole Chinese cultural development.