The primitive dance has spent its formative period in the long primitive society. It is a stage with a very deep time span and great changes in the dance ontology, the ecological environment and the cultural atmosphere on which it depends. With the emergence of primitive beliefs and the formation of totem dance, witchcraft dance, ritual dance, to the late primitive society, has been an increasingly mature art form. In China, there have been many ceramic ocarinas, ceramic whistles, bone flutes, stone chimes and other musical instruments unearthed in Neolithic sites six or seven thousand years ago. Even more remarkable is the fall of 1973, in Datong County, Qinghai on Sun Jiazhai excavations unearthed dance pattern colored pottery pots, which shows us about five thousand years ago the visual image of the art of dance.
Dance in primitive society has gone through a long journey, but when the development of the Neolithic era, especially the patrilineal clan society, China's dance art system has been basically constructed to form the quality of all kinds of dances in later generations in the primitive dance system basically have
Primitive dance in the clan society not only is a tool for entertainment, but also a religious tool, educational tool, bear the social As a tool for entertainment, it can entertain itself as well as others; and as a tool for education, it contains a wide range of contents, such as: clan history, production and labor, fighting skills, ethics and morality, health and fitness, and even the knowledge of sex, etc., which have been the content of dance education. But it is ultimately an aesthetic activity, it performs a variety of functions at the same time, there can be no aesthetic, so that people (including the dancers themselves) to get pleasure and aesthetic enjoyment of the role.
Primitive dance is mainly functional, mostly reflecting the value of life.