Ribbon dance is from the popularity of gymnastics in the hand throwing apparatus gymnastics category, does not belong to the dance category, while the ribbon dance belongs to a popular performance type of dance, so the two are different types of dance.
Ribbon dance popularization comes from gymnastics, originated in Northern Europe, and then promoted to the whole of Europe, so far has nearly a hundred years of history, and the first "International Festival of Popular Gymnastics" was held as early as 1939 in Sweden, and since then every four years once by different countries to take turns hosting.
The Hong Kong Amateur Gymnastics Association (HKAGA) introduced it to Hong Kong in 1993, making Hong Kong the second Asian region to promote gymnastics after Japan.
The Ribbon Dance is a dance originating from the Chinese folk masses, first originated in the early Tang Dynasty, people around the world to celebrate the harvest year of the grain harvest, the country's victory in the war victory day, a kind of dance jumped at the time of celebrations, and handed down to the present day, through the precipitation of the years and the wisdom of the crystallization, has gradually become a simple customs and culture of the famous ethnic groups, celebrating the holidays, the colorful ribbons flying, the people dancing to celebrate the happiness of life.