I think the most beautiful ancient dance is the dress and feather dance.
The dance of dress and feather is also called colorful plumage. It is a kind of court music and dance in the Tang Dynasty. A song for Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, which was used to be played when offering sacrifices to Laozi in Taiqing Palace. Lost after An Shi Rebellion. During the Southern Song Dynasty, Jiang Kui discovered eighteen pieces of music of Shang Dynasty's Nishang Song. These fragments are still preserved in his "Songs of Road flyover Baishi". The masterpiece of song and dance in the Tang Dynasty is still worthy of being a bright pearl in the history of music and dance. Yang Guifei, once one of the four beauties in ancient China, was extremely favored by Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty because she was good at this dance.
colorful plumage was cited as a proud work by Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, and it was only performed in the court at first. In the 28th year of Kaiyuan, when Yang Yuhuan first met in Huaqingchi, Emperor Xuanzong played colorful plumage as a guide. At that time, the minister Zhang Hu's Huaqing Palace said, "The sky is dark in night is still young, and the blue clouds and fairy songs dance beautifully. A Yu Di is empty, and the moon is full of Li Mountain Palace. " Colorful plumage was once popular in Kaiyuan and Tianbao years. After Tianbao Rebellion, there was no performance in the court. Because of the beautiful tune and exquisite conception of colorful plumage, various provinces and towns rehearsed it in succession, so all the literati in the Tang Dynasty sang or recorded it. Later, with the decline and collapse of the Tang Dynasty, the famous song "Nishang" was "silent". In fact, by the middle Tang Dynasty, this song had been forgotten by many people. In the Five Dynasties, Li Yu, the queen of the Southern Tang Dynasty, got a residual score. After Zhao Hui, Zhou Ehuang and musician Cao Sheng searched for the sound according to the score, patched it into a song, and once arranged and rehearsed it, but it was no longer original.
colorful plumage describes the myth that Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty yearned for immortals and went to the Moon Palace to meet them. Its dance, fun and costumes all strive to depict the illusory fairyland and dancing fairy images, giving people an immersive artistic feeling. Bai Juyi has a poem "Song of Dancing in a Dress and Feather", which gives a detailed description of the structure and dance posture of the song: the whole song has 36 paragraphs, the scattered preface (six paragraphs), the middle preface (eighteen paragraphs) and the broken song (twelve paragraphs), which integrates singing, dancing and instrumental music. There are 36 paragraphs in the whole song, which shows the fairy story of Taoism in China.
colorful plumage was very popular in the court of the Tang Dynasty, and played an important role in the music and dance in the prosperous Tang Dynasty. Xuanzong personally taught the disciples of Liyuan to play, and the maids sang, with 3 female artists, 1 at a time. Bai Juyi and Yuan Zhen have wonderful descriptions of the performance scene of this song in their poems.
colorful plumage shows that Daqu in the Tang Dynasty has a huge and changeable style, and its artistic expression shows the great achievements made by the court music in the Tang Dynasty. From Bai Juyi's Song of Dressing and Feathering, it can be seen that the accompaniment of colorful plumage is made of gold, stone, silk and bamboo, such as Qing (a bronze bowl in the Tang Dynasty), Zheng, flute, fiddle, fiddle and sheng, and the music is as intoxicating as "dancing beads and shaking jade".