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People
discovered from the figure in the rock of ‘mo’, the
totem's worship was
together with choreographic contact mostly. The totem
was a kind of the
culturally accumulation, but dancing vividly deduced
the kind of accumulation. The folks of the China
tradition dances culture, containing the abundant and
eastern thought. The natural economic self-sufficient,
the " unification" of the political principle,
moral" kind and justice" in ethics, appreciate
beauty the " moderate" of the interest, life
and consciousness of" blend", integrated
finally to turn the structure and form for the "
the doctrine of the mean" —— integral whole of
the thought method, which was the civilized typical
model in agriculture token. All these, were core
contents that Chinese folks dance every kind of
appearance. Whether was a crazy needfire, or the
seasonal changes revels, had to thank for favor, prayed
or dispossessed, all at express same emotion——Redeem
a vow pledged in the jinn, and imprecate prosperous,
lucky and peaceful. But dragon dance, the password of
the conduct and actions Chinese nation emotion carried,
just about the concentration express of the perception
appearance and concept of value.
In primitive period, the dragon
dance was primary used to please the jinn for blessing
by the ancients. From the "dragon dance for
raining" was systemic
recorded by Dong Zhongshu in West Han, to "The fish
and dragon spreads" was described by Zhang Heng in
East Han, clearly announced the evolvement of the dragon
totem——from mystery to happiness. People danced
dragon, no longer only for expressing rite, also was for
amusing own mind and body. In Wei and Ji, "The fish
and dragon spreads" was very popular. Because of
lights, the "dragon light dance" was more
vivid. From that time on, "dragon light
activity" with its gorgeous color, great scale,
abundant contents, high-spirited vigour, which can
incarnate the spirit of solidarity and unity is
strength, became the main Chinese folk program. At the
same time, the “dragon light activity” started the
spokesperson that be used as the dragon culture, it
dynamicly vividly poured all ideas of the Chinese dragon
culture. Namely, from now on the Chinese dragon culture
was most intuitionistic and vividly incarnated in
mundane the dragon light culture.
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