A brief discussion of the Tang Dynasty dance teaching activities

Dance teaching in the talk about dance, said: China is no dance country. In fact, the Tang Dynasty, China's dance development to a peak, both in the court and in society, dance education activities have great development. Government-run dance education institutions are complete and set up at all levels, and a large number of social dance talents are trained, all reflecting the development of dance education activities in this historical period. A cursory examination of the whole Tang poetry, poetry about music and dance were created by nearly thirty people. The beauty of the dance of the Tang Dynasty stirred up the creative talent of the poets, and also illustrated the splendor of the dance in that era. So Ouyang Yuqian said: generally speaking, the Western Zhou Dynasty, Western Han Dynasty and Tang Dynasty formed three peaks in the development of dance art, and the Tang Dynasty reached the peak in history. And the emergence of this dance heyday, to a large extent attributable to the dance education activities at that time, it is because of the excellent education system and policy, the increase in the number of artists and the growth of skills to become the biggest driving force of the prosperity of the dance

I, the Tang Dynasty of the heyday of the dance Mr. Ouyang Yuqian in the Tang Dynasty Dance in the book, the dance of the period to do a high degree of generalization and wonderful interpretation. Wen dance of feminine and elegant, martial arts dance of the breathtaking; Tang Emperor Gaozong's strategic and tactical ideas in the battlefield music, the use of 900 people on the exaggerated Palace of God dance, the amazing new technology dancers back to change clothes, as well as Ping Wei after the chaos of the light after the Shengle; small dances of the healthy dance, soft dance; the most praised, or the dancers feathered and ascended to immortality of the Nishang Yuyi Dance, gossamer costumes, slow and sharp beat, the artistry and spectacle of a great dance. Artistic and ornamental all the best, that is, Yang Yuhuan this pair of lovers

Two, the Tang Dynasty dance government policy Tang government's attitude towards dance, in the emperors to treat their own recreational life can be seen in the end. In the Tang Dynasty, all the court held a big feast, must be performed music and dance, such as the courtiers to congratulate the emperor held a banquet, hospitality to the brotherhood of emissaries, to celebrate the harvest, welcome back to Chang'an from the Western Region, etc. will be held in a big feast, the whole set of performances of all kinds of music and dance. There were also dances by the above-mentioned emperors, and much more. State policy makers, love dance, enjoy dance, naturally also for their own indulgence to support the development of dance

In addition, the Tang Dynasty, there is a ban on the dance of the people's regulations, which in practice means that the emperor is only allowed to be happy, do not allow the common people to entertain the dance. Feudal ruling class, the folk song and dance performances centralized to the court, enjoy themselves, and at the same time this enjoyment as a privilege, not allowed to folk with the enjoyment. The Tang Dynasty had also expressly prohibited the scattered music and drama to perform in the countryside, Tang will want to volume 34 said, violating the ban on the artists, or the reception of their families and village chiefs, will be beaten thirty boards, artists back to the original home to serve a heavy service. The reason for this is generally two: one is the concept of hierarchy; the second is to maintain the rule, that is, for fear that the civilian crowd trouble

Three, the Tang Dynasty dance teaching institutions mentioned the Tang Dynasty dance teaching institutions, will certainly remind people of the workshop and pear orchards. The workshop records: the right more good song, the left more work dance, all because of the habit. It shows that the left workshop of Juyanzhengfang at that time was mainly for dance training. New Tang Book Volume 22 records: Emperor Xuanzong both know the sound, and love of the law song, choose to sit in the Department of the play children of 300, taught in the pear orchard

New Tang Book _ Hundred Officials record: after the Wude, set up within the workshop in the forbidden, after the Queen of Wu Ruyi two years, changed to be called 'Cloud Shaofu', to the Chinese official as a messenger, the second year of the Kaiyuan period, and set up within the workshop in the side of the Palace of Penglai. Tang dynasty workshop is mainly responsible for the creation and performance of court music, a large number of people, is quite influential and representative of the creation and performance of music and dance unit. Since its establishment, it has become the main bearer of court entertainment activities, and made outstanding contributions to the development of music and dance in the Tang Dynasty. The supreme ruler of the workshop was the emperor, but the highest position in the workshop was the eunuch, the position of the workshop, all known as the director of the workshop within the work of making. According to the evidence, the first minister of the Tang Dynasty was Fan Anhe. After the Anshi Rebellion, such a huge music and dance organization in the palace and many musicians and dancers became a burden to the ruler. By the 14th year of the Yuan and Yuan Dynasties, the scale and personnel of the workshop had become smaller and smaller, and although the workshop had not been disbanded at this time, its scale and personnel were far less than those of the flourishing Tang Dynasty. The workshop musicians are hidden in the folk, most of them have a miserable life, can only be in the late Tang government and business banquets in the sound of song and dance to trace the memory of the flourishing days

LiYuan is the Tang Emperor XuanZong set up for his own music and dance institutions, because in the forbidden garden near the LiYuan and so named. Mainly teach and play the law, can be selected into the pear orchard are the most outstanding music and dance artists, so that there will be Tang _ miscellany of the record: Kaiyuan two men, on the world of nothing, listening to the leisure of politics, in the pear orchard since the teaching of the law, will be full of the best, said the emperor pear orchard disciples. Pear orchard disciples from too often carefully selected musicians, male artists 300, live in the forbidden garden of the pear orchard; female artists hundreds, live in the palace of the Yichun north yard, are called the emperor pear orchard disciples. After 755 A.D., the palace music and dance institutions gradually shrink and decline, the ruler is more and more indifferent to the music and dance. In the 14th year of the Tang Dynasty Emperor Dali's reign, the Liyuan was finally disbanded. The pear orchard has disappeared for more than a thousand years, but its name has been used to this day

Four, teaching activities in the teaching organization of the dance artists in the court entertainment role is irreplaceable, usually accompanied by Emperor Xuanzong and spent countless hours of fun it is these outstanding artists

First of all, is the selection of students. At the beginning of the establishment of the workshop, the musicians were mainly composed of two parts, one is the original temple in the loose music musicians, and the other is the clan residence of the loose music musicians. In addition, green houses were the main towns for selecting musicians. Gongsun Daniang was an outstanding sword dancer in the workshop, and often danced in front of the Royal Palace of Hua Qing Palace. Zheng Yu Jin Yang Men's poem says: Gongsun's sword play is amazing, and the monk Huaisu saw it, and his cursive writing was greatly improved, and was inspired by the staccato momentum of his dance, and the amazing dance skills could make the many arts touching the same thing. Zhang Yunrong is Yang Guifei's discovery of the dance genius, had fallen in love with the dance, stayed by the side of the careful cultivation, and grams of poems praising each other

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