Beautiful Chinese Classical Dance [7] "Incense" by Shi Xuehan - 1080p

Performers = China National Opera & Dance Drama Theater
Chinese Classical Dance and Classical Music = Dancer = Shi Xuehan; Music = Xunxiang; Composer = Zhang Qu

===Some ancient Chinese dance postures and poses are preserved in Chinese grotto murals, sculptures, portrait stones, portrait bricks, pottery figurines, and various unearthed cultural relics through paintings and decorative patterns depicting dance figures; Chinese historical and cultural materials also contain a wealth of specific descriptions of past dance figures. Chinese dancers, since the 1950s, have made significant achievements in the research, organization, reproduction, and development of classical Chinese dance. They have established a complete set of classical Chinese dance textbooks and created a large number of dance and dance drama works in the style of classical Chinese dance. This has resulted in aesthetic characteristics characterized by delicacy and grace, a balance of strength and gentleness, a fusion of emotion and scenery, a combination of technique and martial arts, and a perfect harmony and high unity of essence, energy, spirit, and the movements of hand, eye, body, method, and step. Classical Chinese dance has an extremely long history. Its origins can be traced back to ancient Chinese court dances or even more distant folk dances. From the Zhou Dynasty onwards, through the Han, Jin, and even Tang and Five Dynasties periods, the imperial court established specialized music and dance institutions to gather and train professional musicians and dancers. These institutions also organized, researched, refined, and developed popular folk dances, religious dances, and even dances from foreign lands, thus forming court dances. Among these, the Zhou Dynasty's "Six Dynasties Dance" (comprising "Yunmen," "Xianchi," "Dashao," "Daxia," "Dabo," and "Dawu") and the Tang Dynasty's "Nine Parts of Music," "Ten Parts of Music," "Sitting Music," "Music Department Music," and "Grand Music," among others, were diverse and vibrant, each with its own unique style. Chinese court dance was an important tool for rulers throughout history to enjoy themselves and to praise their achievements, primarily performed by female musicians. Because court dances were created to suit the aesthetic tastes of the rulers, some of the works inevitably exhibited a decadent style and passive content; however, most of them were created by artists based on Chinese folk dances, and thus possessed many exquisite aspects of traditional Chinese art.