Dunhuang Murals And Dunhuang Dan

Dunhuang Grotto had been built since the second year of Jianyuan of Qian-Qin dynasty (366A.C.). It has a history of over one thousand years with ten dynasties From North Liang, North Wei, West Wei and North Zhou of16Kingdoms period to Sui, Tang, Wu-Dai,Song, West Xia and Yuan. It shows the music and dance art with different styles in different historical periods and in different regional characteristics. From all angles, all kinds of areas, directly or indirectly, it reflects the social reality of life, religious belief in pursuit, and wonderful wishes at the time. It also reflects the great artistic creative spirit of the Chinese nation, and it is the crystallization of the spiritual culture of the Chinese nation. Dunhuang Mogao grottoes as art treasures in the history of the Chinese culture, have caused intensive researches of variou category experts in all the dynasties. There searchers have made a huge contribution to carry forward the culture of Dunhuang art with fruitful results. Dunhuang Dance has been developed by the dancers based on Dunhuang murals of dancing. With the great efforts,the dancers have made the Dunhuang murals dancing, from static paintings into moving dances, and have formed a new school of classical dances with wester Chinese characteristics.The reincarnation of the Dunhuang Dance with its training system, is neither a heritage from ancient times, nor an appearance of local dances the Dunhuang region. It is a great creation based on Dunhuang murals. The training of Dunhuang Dance is a style of training course, from easy to hard, from simple to complex, from a single training to comprehensive training. DunhuangDance is recognized and loved by domestic and foreign colleagues, and by the general audience, due to its unique artistic style and special aesthetic characteristics. The establishment and develop-ment of Dunhuang Dance embodies the outstanding talent of dance artists of the old generation.The inheritance and development of Dunhuang Dance, as a endless systematic engineering to carry forward the Chinese culture, need great efforts of our dancers from generation to generation. We have a heavy tuty and a long way to go.