The aesthetic features of Dunhuang Dance are as follows:
I. The beauty of Dunhuang Dance's form
(a) The three bends - seeking the circle in the curve
"Three bends" is a more typical dance form. A more typical dance form, it exists in the dance of the Eastern peoples, such as the Dai dance, Northeast rice-planting songs, Yunnan lanterns and other ethnic dances show "three curves" posture, due to historical and cultural, aesthetic concepts and other differences in the dance of the three curves of the posture of the shape of the similarity of the God is not the same, each with their own characteristics and charms.
Second, Dunhuang dance style beauty
Style is the representative appearance of the work of art on the whole. Dance as a kind of art is also so, the style of dance has distinctive characteristics of the times, Dunhuang dance style represents the beauty of a particular era of dance.
(A) Buddhist colorful
Dunhuang mural music and dance image embodies the Buddhist culture, reproduces the Buddhist history, and to the deep Buddhist culture as the foundation, has colorful artistic characteristics and strong artistic vitality. The Silk Road opened by Zhang Qian's mission to the Western Regions in the Western Han Dynasty opened the door to cultural exchanges and collisions between different countries, and Buddhist culture was introduced to China in the Eastern Han Dynasty, which had a profound impact on the culture of music and dance in China.
(2) Western style
Dunhuang dance is very Western style. Dunhuang is on the Silk Road, and its dance art has become unique due to the exchange and fusion of eastern and western art and culture.
Central and Western music and dance cultural exchanges have a long history, the end of the Warring States period, the "King of Qin swept the six" move set off the great Han dance of the great powers of the wind, political stability in the Han Dynasty, the economy is strong, music and dance cultural exchanges are also expanding, colorful culture of the seven countries converged in the Central Plains, the formation of a new comprehensive form of performance! "Hundred Opera", Western music and dance was also introduced to the Central Plains at this time.
The cultural exchanges between Chinese and Western music and dance have far-reaching effects, Zhang Qian brought back music from the Western region, "Mahaboudou music", which was later made into a military music, and Emperor Lingdi of the Han Dynasty was very fond of the foreign culture of the Western region.