"lushi Ancient Spring And Autumn Period, Music Piece" Dance In The Historical Study

The Lü-shih chun-chiu is an encyclopedic Chinese classic textcompiled under the patronage of the Qin Dynasty Chancellor Lü Buwei.It was compiled by the numerous retainers of Lü Buwei,counselor-in-chief of the state of Qin. The Lü shih chun chiu is uniqueamong early works in that it is well organized and comprehensive,covering a wide range of topics including culture, economy, behaviorand music. As one of its main thread, the book contains a large amountof information and material on ancient music theory and musicallegend. Particularly the chapter of ancient music(古乐篇)regardingChinese traditional music list out the musical history of pre-Qin dynasty ina cleared order using vivid and concise language.The chapter placed a great emphasis on dance accompanied bymusic(乐舞)that is developed before Qin-dynasty as part of the religiousceremony. It is a complex art form that contains a mixture of music,poetry and dance. The chapter of ancient music recorded dancemusic from the Neolithic Age, the period of The Three Sovereigns andFive Emperors and to Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasty.Scholars spent a lot of time researching the Ancient Music fromdifferent angels with little achievement but no comprehensive studyhas been conduced from the point of dance accompanied by music.On the basis of previous studies, this research has been carried out togain a comprehensive view on the music dance pre-Qin dynasty, andsubsequently to further understand the language and narrative featureof Ancient Music and its serving purposes on ancient music theory.The ultimate aim is to brought out the value of the article of chapterof ancient music(古乐篇):it is not only a piece of music history of theper-Qin dynasty music，the information is also a dance accompanied by music(乐舞) of Chinese.