Music and dance to heaven
Sacrificial music and dance originated from elegant music in Shang and Zhou Dynasties, and formed a complete sacrificial music system in the early Ming Dynasty-moderate and less music. After more than 3000 years of development and change, it has a long history. In the Qing Dynasty, it inherited the essence of moderate and less music in the Ming Dynasty, and fully applied it to the ceremony of offering sacrifices to heaven in the Temple of Heaven, making the music and dance of offering sacrifices to heaven reach the peak of feudal society. Music and dance to worship heaven is an important part of the ritual to worship heaven. This kind of ritual music developed with the occurrence of human sacrifice activities. It integrates ceremony, music, song and dance, and organically combines dance rules, symbolic movements and symbolic etiquette through elegant music, beautiful poetry and graceful dance. It not only shows the solemn and pious spirit of the worship ceremony, but also has the artistic atmosphere of singing and singing, which is an important part of the development history of music and dance in China. Description of ceremony in Qing Dynasty: prepare nine ceremonies, prepare nine performances of music and use three ceremonies, that is, the nine procedures of ceremony should go hand in hand with ceremony and music. The nine sacrificial procedures are as follows: welcoming the emperor, offering jade and silk, fighting Jingping, entering foreign countries, fighting Xianping, offering first, offering Asia, fighting Jiaping, finally offering Yongping, withdrawing-ping, sending the emperor to fight Qingping and looking at Liao.