In addition to this, practicing a good square dance, you need to understand its origin, square dance has a long history and a long history. According to art historians, the earliest art produced by mankind is dance, and square dance is the mother of dance. Square dance originates from social life, produced in the people, the masses are the creators and performers of square dance. In the long river of history, the people not only created the square dance, and the development of the square dance, so that the flower of folk art y rooted in the social life of the masses, generations of inheritance, generations of the same, everlasting. Square dance is one of the largest subsystems in the art of dance. China has more than fifty nationalities, single Han nationality has thousands of square dance forms. Each ethnic group has its own unique form of square dance, square dance in almost every corner of the motherland. Take Shanxi to speak, the county have their own square dance, the village have square dance activities. So square dance is a very important art form in China and even in the world. Square dance and group dance is similar to the collective dance, collective dance as a city of popular dance, with a strong self-indulgence, dance steps are generally relatively simple, formation changes are not complex, is a relatively easy to carry out the "everyone jumps" for the active workers, students, the public's spare time and cultural life is extremely beneficial to most of the collective dance moves, now Most of the group dance movements now come from China's folk dances or western ballroom dances. Often refers to urban squares, campuses, factories by the people's collective performance of the dance. Distinguished from the rural villagers on the occasion of the annual festival of self-indulgence, collective folk dance; also distinguished from the stage by a number of people performing group dance.