What is the Eight Dances of the Ceremony of the Son of Heaven?

1, Shidian Shu Dance is short for Shu Dance, also known as Shu Dance and Kong Shu Dance. According to different arrangements, it is divided into six Shu dances and eight Shu dances, which are performed in the ceremony of offering sacrifices to Confucius.

2. In 485 A.D. (Emperor Yongming lived for three years in China's ancient Southern Dynasties), there was a record about the Stone Hall: "Yuan Jia set up a school, and she wore a pine instrument, but she should dance six songs, but there was no suburban music, so she played the music from the right, and now the stone has been prepared. It is appropriate to set up the music of Xuanxian County, the dance of six songs, and the use of offering sacrifices to prisoners, depending on the public. " Xuanxian, or Xuanxing, was compiled by China Guzong Band. This is the beginning of the ritual of offering sacrifices to Confucius with music and dance in history. After that, the scale and music and dance of offering sacrifices to Confucius in different dynasties were different.

3. In 492 AD (Northern Wei Emperor Xiaowen Taihe 16), the "three sacrifices" were added to Liu Shu's dance, namely, the first sacrifice, the second sacrifice and the last sacrifice. In 740 (the 28th year of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty), Confucius was ceremoniously sacrificed with a gossip dance of 64 people.

4. The dance comes from the elegant music dance in the ancestral temple palace. The dancer's name is "Shusheng". Shu is a team, divided into eight, six, four and two. Like the court music and dance, Shi Dian Shu Dance also includes Wen Dance and Wu Dance. When dancing, the right hand holds a feather, usually with a pheasant tail and the left hand holds a _, that is, a piccolo-shaped bamboo tube, which means standing upright. Each action represents a word, a piece of music and a set of actions. Wu dance is also called dry dance.