This is the Chinese and foreign dance community has been exploring the issue. In China, some scholars believe that began in the Paleolithic Age, may also be earlier, they are in China Yunnan Cangyuan rock paintings of male dance image as evidence; there are from the late Paleolithic Shanding Caveman's burial decorations according to the primitive people already have the aesthetic consciousness and religious consciousness to judge, the primitive society's ritual dance has been primitive people with a kind of sorcery inductions of the behavior of the depiction of the rock, the rock paintings left behind by these histories is to judge the image of the primitive society dance is strong evidence. Some other scholars believe that the dance originated nearly 5000 years ago in the Neolithic era, they are the evidence of the dance pattern of colored pottery pots unearthed in Sun Jiazhai, Datong County, Qinghai.
From this, we say that the dance civilization in China originated 10,000 years ago. According to the research of experts and scholars in the archaeological field, it has been proved that if there is a human civilization, there is bound to be human dance. It can be said that dance is a product of synchronous development along with human civilization, and it can also be said that dance is the beginning of all civilizations.