What is the name of the dance in which a man puts his arm around a woman's waist and the woman puts her hands on the man's shoulders and walks back and forth? A dance from the Shanghai Beach period

That's ballroom dancing.

Ballroom dancing is an international social dance originating from the West, also known as ballroom dancing, party dancing, social dancing and ballroom dancing.

It originated in Europe and evolved based on ancient folk dances. Since the 16th and 17th centuries, ballroom dancing has become a common social activity in European countries, so it is called the "world language". After the 1920s, ballroom dancing became popular all over the world, so it was also called "international dance".

As early as 1924, ballroom dancing was introduced to several major cities and treaty ports in China. In the early days of liberation, in the 1950s and 1960s, ballroom dancing was still very popular in China. Popular, after the Cultural Revolution was suspended, in the 1980s, ballroom dance was once again accepted by the masses, but there was a big gap with the level of world ballroom dance. Ballroom dance, due to the influence of court dance, its style It is: the dance is solemn and elegant, the steps are rigorous and standardized, and it is quite gentlemanly, so it is called the social dance of the European school.

The entry comes from Baidu Encyclopedia