How to understand the cultural phenomenon of the trinity of poetry, dance and music

Poetry is one of the oldest literary forms. The combination of original poetry with music and dance is an important feature of early poetry. The ancient music of Lu's Spring and Autumn Annals records the song and dance sacrificial activities of an ancient tribe named Ge: In the past, Ge Zhile, three people sang eight songs: one said "carrying people" and the other said "mysterious birds". There are seven theories of "the virtue of one place" and eight theories of "the extreme of all things". These eight quees are probably the oldest set of music known at present, in which three people sing and dance with oxtails. This set of music embodies the original form of the trinity of ancient poetry, music and dance.

Labor determines the characteristics of primitive literature: the trinity of poetry, music and dance. Because labor voice, labor action and labor voice are naturally formed in the process of labor, have the same rhythm and are inseparable from each other. Poetry, dance and music developed from these three are also sung together at the beginning according to a certain rhythm, such as Lv Chunqiu Ancient Music quoted above.

The trinity of poetry, music and dance represents the pursuit of spiritual realm by ancient literati. There is a preface to Mao's Ancient Poems: "A poet, who has aspirations, has aspirations in his heart, speaks as a poem, and his emotions move in the middle, which is not enough, so he sighs and sighs, so he sings and sings, but he doesn't know how to dance."