In the primitive tribes of mankind, the dance has the whole society, in their organization of loose and unstable life situation, need to have a kind of social inductance to make them unite together, the dance is the important means to produce this inductance. Whether it is caracal hunting or war, is the whole tribe together, so the primitive dance is always collective. Tribes in order to have a *** with the sign, which appeared totem. Totem not only as a symbol of tribal distinction, but also a primitive religious beliefs. Whenever you pray or celebrate, you dance to the totem, which is called totem dance. Totem dance exists in primitive peoples all over the world. North American Indian tribes dance the bison dance, they are superstitious bison and their own tribes have blood relations, jump this dance bison will appear and let them caracal hunting: Australian natives jump their totem snake dance, the dancers tattooed face tattoos, as a memorial to their tribal ancestors. The dragon and the wind were the totems of the ancient Chinese peoples. Due to the various tribes to merge with each other, a totem can no longer represent the whole tribe dares to alliance of the *** with the ancestors, so the child kinds of totem features, such as the deer's horns, the snake's body, the fish's scales, the eagle's claws synthesized into the image of the dragon, with the peacock, the pheasant and other features synthesized into the image of the phoenix, they represent the supreme ruler of the ancestor of a family name as the "emperor of virtue" and the "Tiancheng" logo. It was only later that the dragon and the wind were taken as symbols of the birth of the Chinese nation and the beginning of its culture.
Primitive society dissolved, mankind entered the slave society, from then on, totem worship and witchcraft superstition began to combine. As a result, the witch dance was created. Totem worship and witchcraft, although both are primitive religious beliefs, but the nature of the two are different, the form of activities are not the same. Totem is the idol of primitive human worship, and witch is as a bridge between man and God; totem dance is a social collective dance, and witch dance is the performance of the witch. In witchcraft, song and dance were utilized as means of witchcraft to create a mysterious atmosphere to ensure the success of witchcraft. In terms of dance development, the witch dance is a big step forward from the primitive totem dance, as it moves from a rougher group dance to a professional, individual dance performance, and it also shows mythological characters and stories. China's Spring and Autumn and Warring States period of Chu, witch dance is very prevalent, large-scale, form and content are quite rich.