1. Customary dance: also known as festival and ceremonial dance, is a variety of mass dance activities held by many ethnic groups in our country in the marriage, funeral, planting, harvesting and other festivals. In these dance activities, the table view of the customs and habits of various ethnic groups, social customs, cultural traditions and national character traits.
2. Religious, sacrificial dance: is the dance form of religious and sacrificial activities. Mainly used to pray for divine blessings, remove disasters and illnesses, turn misfortune into good fortune, animal and human prosperity, a bumper crop, or to thank the gods for their gifts; ritual dance, a ritual dance form of ancestor worship. In the past, people used to express their nostalgia for their ancestors or hope that their ancestors and the gods and Buddhas would bless and give blessings to them.
3. Social dance: it is a dance activity for people to have social communication, promote friendship and contact feelings. Generally refers to a variety of social dance in the ball. In addition, many of China's ethnic minorities in a variety of festivals carried out by the mass of the dance activities, mostly young men and women for social interaction, free choice of spouse social activities, therefore, can also be said to be the social dance of the various ethnic groups.
4. Self-indulgent dance: it is a dance activity in which people entertain themselves for the sole purpose of self-indulgence. Dance to express and vent their inner emotional impulses, so as to obtain the full satisfaction of aesthetic pleasure.
5. Sports dance: is a combination of dance and sports, artistic and aesthetic way to exercise the body, so that the physical and mental development of the new varieties of dance. Such as a variety of fitness dance, rhythmic gymnastics, middle-aged and elderly disco, ice dance, water dance, street dance HI-HOP, as well as China's traditional martial arts in the sword dance, sword dance and symbolic simulation of a variety of animals, a specific image of the Elephantine Boxing, Five Birds, etc. are.
6. Educational dance: refers to schools, kindergartens and other aesthetic education dance activities, as well as the opening of the dance course, used to cultivate and beautify people's ideological feelings, moral character, cultivate people's unity and friendship, strengthen etiquette, as well as to promote physical and mental health, can play a role in the subtle.
7. Square Dance: Square Dance is also known as line dance, square dance. When people dance, they automatically line up in rows and dance in an orderly manner. Square dance can fitness, entertainment, is a good sports program.
Square dance, generally used for morning exercise, evening exercise, not subject to age, gender, occupation, position, social class restrictions, can be more than one person, the collective jump, can also be a single person to jump, the venue can be in due to the simple. Square dance in our country in ancient times, after thousands of years.
Early square dances are mainly folk dances, which are most popular in rice-planting dances. There are different forms of square dances in various ethnic groups in China, which are popular dances.