Da Niang Gongsun was a beautiful and pretty woman in the early Tang Dynasty, not only was she beautiful and pretty, but her sword dance was also outstanding. She was so good at sword dance that no one in the whole country was better than her sword dance. When she danced and performed on the street, the people who watched her blocked the road, and at a glance it was a sea of people, a dark and pressurized piece.
On one occasion, an official saw how so many people blocked here, the road was closed, they sent someone to check, learned that it was the Gongsun dame in the sword dance, the official will get off the car to go to watch, see not a moment, was Gongsun's dance y attracted to the end of the show, will go to the invitation to go to the palace to perform.
Gongsun Daniang agreed to the official's request, to the palace for the emperor to perform, the emperor praised her, said she is the first Tang Palace dancer, no one look down on, Gongsun Daniang she inherited the traditional sword dance, based on the creation of a variety of "sword" dance, such as "West River Sword Instrument," "Sword Instrument Hunde". This also shows Gongsun Daniang's talent in sword dance.
It is said that Zhang Xu, the saint of calligraphy, was enlightened by Gongsun Danniang's sword dance and practiced superb calligraphy. Du Fu, the great poet saint, also watched Gongsun Damiang's sword dance, and at that time Gongsun Damiang, one person and one sword, each step waved that magnificent momentum.
Du Fu, the poet saint, also wrote a poem for Gongsun Danniang, titled "Sword and Weapon", which fully expresses Gongsun Danniang's unique sword dance: In the past, there was a beautiful Gongsun, a dance of sword and weapon to move the four directions.
Gongsun Danniang, as the first dancer of the Tang Dynasty, was highly regarded. Because Gongsun Daniang dance is unique, she not only the traditional sword to carry forward, but also in the traditional sword based on the creation of many new sword dance, according to legend, the representative of the cursive Zhang Xu is because of watching Gongsun Daniang's sword dance, calligraphy attainments in a deeper step, practiced into a world of calligraphy, become a generation of grass saint.
While Gongsun Damiang was skilled, she could only roam the countryside, could not become rich and famous, and lived like ordinary people, and eventually could only grow old slowly, but her skills were far-reaching and influenced the three saints, without her we would not have been able to read Du Fu's Sword Vessel Row, and if she had not been there we would not have been able to see the grass saint's one soaring text, and the painting saint's one flying text. It is also possible to not see the painting saint's that a beautiful picture.