Dance Heritage And Cultural Expression

The arising and evolution of birds and beasts imitating dance wasoriginated in hunting life of ancient China. The evolution process ofbirds and beasts imitating dance can be evidenced from the cultural relicand literature across the5000years Chinese history. Start from merelyimitating, then become sacrifice ceremony of higher class society andpublic entertainment performance, as well as spread and save become today,has a comprehensive art form in the historical process of developmentand evolution. The thesis would start from research on ancient dance,expanding horizons to the typical dance cultural relics to birds andbeasts imitating dance cultural expression. Based on the research ofliterature and using the classic dancing figures and verities as exampleand demonstrating with cross-discipline scientific researching methodslike cultural relic study, archaeology, iconology and field study.There are mainly four chapters in the thesis: first chapter ’culturalrelics and cultural connotation of dance’, stating the historybackground of dance relics arising and its cultural expressions; secondchapter ’birds and beasts imitating dance abstract’, analysis thearising and evolution of birds and beasts imitating dace relics basedon specific cultural environment and period of ancient China; chapterthree ’functions and aesthetic characteristics of birds and beastsimitating dance’; the main innovative part of thesis is chapter four ’thecultural expressions of dance relics’ mainly depends on the socialbackground, give priority to with dance cultural relics left over fromhistory, through the dance of cultural relics in the quasi deeplyanalyzes specific typical image of the birds and beasts dance,referencing with historical literature, further expand vertical andhorizontal dimension of research, aiming to provide a detailedexplanation of birds and beasts imitating dance relics for the specific historical environment through accurate descriptions, comprehensive,integrated analysis.