Looking for the lost music and dance of Yin Shang Dynasty, what is mulberry dance?

Music and dance in Shang Dynasty should belong to a kind of sacrificial activity. Mulberry dance is one of them, and it is difficult to be elegant.

Shang dynasty belongs to the dynasty of the unity of politics and religion. Human sacrifice is particularly common. Therefore, mulberry dance cannot be used for viewing, and the only possibility is sacrificial dance.

During the Shang Dynasty, people especially worshipped witchcraft and other things. Therefore, in order to pray for God's punctuality, they will perform divination anytime and anywhere, and the sacrifices of divination include enemies, people, animals or nobles. Most of the records we see in Oracle Bone Inscriptions are from the Shang Dynasty. Therefore, with the object of sacrifice, there is an increase in dance. Can better please the gods.

According to records, the mulberry dance should be a dance that Tang Cheng prayed for good weather.

Mulberry dance belongs to the non-mainstream existence in the royal family of Yin and Shang dynasties, so it is not willing to perform in formal activities. However, the reason why the mulberry dance can be recorded in detail is mainly because the Song people, who are descendants of the Shang Dynasty, do not contradict the mulberry dance, on the contrary, they like it very much. Although it was very non-mainstream at that time, many people outside the Song Dynasty felt that this kind of music was decadent and difficult to be elegant, but Song people still liked it.

Although we don't know what music and dance are like now, according to records, except for the charm of music, the movements look unsightly, so Duke Molenke of Jin wanted to see this kind of dance, but he turned it down because it was too disharmonious.

Generally speaking, mulberry dance belongs to a kind of music and dance in Shang Dynasty. However, because the tunes and movements are unsightly and not noble, they will not be performed in formal occasions.

Mulberry dance gradually disappeared with the changes of the times, which may also represent the disappearance of the ritual system of Zhou. People have ushered in the era of ritual collapse and bad music and the era of thinking generation.