Since then, dancing has made a comeback in the court, which has made many princes and nobles overjoyed and even ruined. So people often lament that song and dance have misunderstood the country in history.
Dance has become the treasure of the court, so it is natural to drink the milk of the court to grow up. Most people in the south are men, so it's not surprising that the dance in the south developed a feminine side in a partial way and gradually filled with women's shows. The extremes of this tendency have slipped into the pit of extravagance, waste and even lewdness. For example, when Shang Zhouwang, the last emperor of Shang Dynasty, was happy, he went to have a "hundred-mile dance". Needless to say, he also used wine as a pool to hang meat as a forest, making men and women undress and chasing dance music in the meantime. What was the result? I'm devastated. This kind of crime, mentioned by gentlemen throughout the ages, is full of blood and anger! Almost as a result, dance also bears its original sin. However, musicians and dancers don't seem to realize this original sin. Aren't they the pets kept by the imperial court? Is it a bit of a joke to force bulldogs to atone for their owners?
In fact, the fusion of women's color and beauty court dance has also developed in another direction, that is, it has been sublimated and realized as an elegant, light and elegant charm and style. The temperament of Taoism and the ideal of immortal family were filtered by Gong Wei. During the Han and Tang Dynasties, when China's court dance was at its peak, they endowed China's court dance with such a special charm and style. For example, the famous "seven-disc dance" in the Han Dynasty was described by the famous writer Yi Fu: "So, I keep quiet and relaxed. Wandering endlessly, thinking for a long time. Its origin is also, prone if, come if, go if, graceful and melancholy, impossible. If there is little access, if it is fragrant, if it is oblique, it will move to Gu Ying. " Cao Zhi's "Luo Shen Fu" describes the flying charm of Luo Shen Fu, which is actually the collateral of this dance purpose. The beauty of classical dance in Chinese Palace lies in its lightness and detachment, but it is delicious. Play with sleeves flying, waist lingering, and finally to the feet, "golden hook" and "silver hook"! Later, it was considered as a three-inch golden lotus to restrain women from locking their boudoir, but it was originally born to pursue the elegance of people dancing like a bright moon on the terrace, and it was a pioneering work for the empress of the Tang Dynasty to show off the beauty of her maids.
China court classical dance has been submerged by too thick historical precipitation before it can wake up to face the 20th century. And ballet from the Italian court, to the French court, the Danish court, and then to the Russian court, had a pleasant sleep, but was awakened by a dream in the 20th century.
Ballet first appeared in Renaissance Italy. There are few records of dancing. Instead, it is a description of the terrible chorea, which once prevailed in the Rhine Valley in northern Europe. The patients swarmed and danced wildly, and the dust was flying all the way. Every time someone among the onlookers is infected and involved in this exciting whirlpool, as a result, patients gather more and more like snowballs and roll forward involuntarily.
The arrival of the Renaissance affirmed the value of secular life and secular enjoyment. People's vitality is revived in self-affirmation. The awakening of reason, the creation of art, the disillusionment of ambition, the extension of greed, and the fierceness of love and hate are all poured into this world with the same vigorous vitality. This is of course an era that is very suitable for the growth of dance. Those little princes who compete with each other in social ostentation and extravagance naturally push a popular Italian folk dance to the foreground, which is the predecessor of ballet. In the palaces of princes and nobles, this folk dance was gradually painted with luxurious and elegant Hui Jin. In order to improve dance skills, family dance teachers appeared, which resulted in standardized requirements and systematic skills. The essence of dance may not be the most direct connection between body movements and life perception; But under this premise, the maturity of a dance is bound to be inseparable from the systematic cultivation of norms and skills.
In the history of hundreds of years, ballet has gradually formed a model of beauty. During this period, people of insight and outstanding geniuses did make immortal contributions to improving the cultural taste of ballet. But generally speaking, although its beauty hangs high in the world, it can sublimate people's sentiments and elevate people's style, but its concern for human survival, the agitation of life perception, the poetic protection of the real soul, the confession of human joys and sorrows, and the depth of the ultimate problem of life are far from it. It is not even willing to shine shoes!
Dance is the mother of art, which is by no means crazy. Dance appeared long before language appeared.
Travelers' accounts and human scientists' surveys show that there is a certain dance phenomenon between birds and primates-for example, when male birds show off to female birds in mating season, the baboon population changes, and there are factors such as rhythm, circle dance formation, orderly shuttle alternation and rotation posture.
The natural expressions and rhythm patterns of human movement can be said to be innate primitive phenomena. Once human beings have some impulse and some intention, making them consciously or unconsciously integrate the two, dance appears.
The action expressions and ideograms of primitive ancestors are certainly much more developed than we are today. Action expression tends to be orderly and rhythmic, which seems to be a natural instinct of human life spirituality.