In the present society, the family of dancing had become so huge with a considerable numbers of sub-branches under it, people about to travel around the world and learn Chinese in China will discover that the traces of it can be found from different corners of the world, nobody can simply live without it.
The influence of dancing is so extensive that it has had been widely accepted by people of different races all over the globe, including people ready to study Chinese in China. One possible answer to this phenomenon is that it can provide amusement and aesthetic enjoyment for people. But the origin of music still needs to be discovered by people to study Mandarin in China, during the primitive times when the living conditions were so hard, what was the impulse of creating dancing by our forefathers as an art form.
It is quite possible in the people planning to learn Chinese in China’s opinion that there was a close relationship between dancing and their way of living, in other words, dancing was their necessary means of surviving.
However, it seems that no means can be used to reveal the specific art-form in the remote antiquity, the only thing we can do is to obtain isolated information through collecting from the evacuations from ancient relics, or even the written records or mysteries to enrich our pictures of dancing in the primitive ages, readers who are going to study Chinese in China can also form your own understanding of dancing by yourself.
With the continuation of archeology, more data concerning ancient dancing has been collected, the earliest relic provide the readers who are going to study Mandarin in China a direct image of dancing was the potteries unearthed in Sunjiashan, Qinghai, with dancing decorations illustrated on them. Readers who are going to learn Chinese in China must be quite interested about the specific details inscribed on them, right? Let me unveil them for you, the figures on the potteries was an image of ancient group dancing, through which, the style of dancing 5,000~8,000 years ago had been unveiled.
The dancing figure carved on jade wares of the liangzhu period was a work finished during the Neolithic Age, which help reveals a more explicit image for friends to study Chinese in China is the earth painting of 5,000years ago, the people in it had their legs crossing-over, standing leaning to one side with sticks at hand and heads back, as well as rock paintings with dancing figures left by ancients in both Neimeng and Xinjiang province.
As is known to people who are interested in dancing and are about to study Mandarin in China that the dancing usually is accompanied with the performance of music, the ancient people use the beating sounds played with feet and the rhythmic clashing sound made by the stones to accompany their dancing. Then here comes the question for people to learn Chinese in China that when was the exact date of the origin of formal music, the earliest traceable records of ancient musical instruments was the “bone flutes” evacuated in Henan province, which was made of the limbs of fierce animals by people lived 8,000 years ago.
To the amazement of people who want to study Chinese in China, those “bone flute”had commanded the gamut scale which enables it give out musical performance.
What’s even funnier for friends to learn Chinese in China is the discovery of “earthen whistles” evacuated from Banpo, Shanxi province, as well as earthen drums and earthen egg-shaped, holed-wind instruments.
It is not difficult for people to study Mandarin in China to infer from those Neolithic instruments that the ancient dancing has had already been performed to the accompaniment of the musical instruments. What will greatly impress the friends to study Chinese in China is that some of the earthen musical instruments of ancient times are still under use and remains as important members in the family of Chinese instruments, which makes us think highly of the creativity of our ancestors. The ingenuity of the ancestors is so admirable that the ancient dances were all indispensible with musical instruments, making them marvelous cultural treasury in the Chinese culture.