How many kinds of agricultural dances were there in ancient Egypt?
Among the four kinds of dances in ancient Egypt, dances related to agricultural production accounted for two kinds. Sacrificing to the "sun god" and imitating the stars are religious ritual dances that ancient Egyptians worshipped and prayed for a bumper harvest in agriculture. The dance movements are solemn and sacred, and the movements are not big, so it is a symbolic dance. The dance formation is mostly round, which seems to be the inheritance and development of the "ring dance" of ancient ancestors. The third kind of dance is funeral etiquette dance. The ancient Egyptians attached great importance to this highly educational dance, and people carried out moral education through singing and dancing at funerals. Funeral etiquette dance belongs to stretching dance, with small movement range, smooth dance steps and more upper limb movements, and some expressive lyrics are interspersed during the performance. The fourth category is mixed dance, which is a kind of dance with acrobatic elements and can best represent the oriental style of ancient Egypt, such as "belly dance" with rapid shaking of abdomen and crotch, somersault, big jump and air rotation. This display technique can attract the attention of the opposite sex, and the performer attracts the audience through the muscles, strength, tenacity and skills of the body. Muscle, strength, tenacity, jumping, rotation and other skills are the display of the performer's youthful vitality and the decoration to enhance his own charm. This form of dance greatly influenced the dance in ancient Greece.