The types of Classical Chinese dance are the Body Rhythm School, the Han and Tang School, the Dunhuang School and the Kun Dance.
Body Rhythm School
The Body Rhythm School of Classical Chinese Dance is the most widely circulated school, which was founded by refining the movement techniques and characteristics of Chinese opera and martial arts, and borrowing from the basic training methods of ballet as the teaching and training curriculum and teaching materials. The school was founded by refining the movement techniques and movement characteristics of Chinese opera and martial arts, and borrowing the basic training methods of ballet as teaching and training programs and materials.
After that, Prof. Li Zhengyi and Prof. Tang Mancheng created the "Body Rhythm" course, which made the Chinese classical dance get rid of the mode of opera dance, and formed its own aesthetic characteristics and style of movement, as well as body training. The Body Rhythm School emphasizes the refinement and development of the "living" legacy of historical dance in opera dance.
Han and Tang School
The "Han and Tang" school takes the spirit and artistic temperament of Han, Tang, Wei and Jin, which are the most brilliant in the history of ancient Chinese civilization, as the aesthetic backbone, and takes the Han, Tang and Ming and Qing opera dances as the pivot point, and adheres to the independent innovation, with the aim of creating a socialist dance with Chinese characteristics for the modern times. Socialist dance for the purpose of creating contemporary Chinese characteristics of the school of classical Chinese dance.
Dunhuang School
Dunhuang School originated from Dunhuang mural paintings, which is the crystallization of the mingling of the civilizations of the Central Plains and the Western Regions on the Silk Road in ancient times, and its dynamic body rhyme.
On the basis of Han culture, it fully absorbs and highlights the dance materials of the Central Plains and the Hexi area, and appropriately integrates the characteristic styles of the Western region, with the characteristics of "the Western region, the Central Plains, and the local area", and with the ancient Xiliang music style as the main melody, it is a unique artistic charm of the dance school.
Kun Dance School
The "Kun Dance" school, which originated from the traditional drama "Kunqu", extracted the excellent genes of Kunqu and improved and integrated them. After several years of development, it has become the fourth major school of classical dance after the three major schools of Body Rhythm, Han and Tang, and Dunhuang. It emphasizes the importance of establishing the brain first and the body later, with the mind as the commander and the body as the subordinate.
While learning from the characteristics of Chinese classical dance, and combining with the characteristics of Kunqu, it combines movement and qiyun into one, emphasizing that qiyun drives the dance movement, reflecting the dancer's qiyun characteristics in the dance movement, and showing the beauty of harmony.