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Chapter 721: Singing and Dancing Enjoy Peace

When he was drunk, Cai Jing felt that it was time to appear in the first show. The emperor in front of him loved the excitement, and every time he feasted, he was indispensable for string music, singing and dancing.

Dance is one of the oldest art forms in human history. It expresses human thoughts with rhythmic and rhythmic physical movements and expresses emotions that people cannot express in words. "The Preface to Mao Shi" says: "Emotions move in the middle and speak in words. So, sigh and sigh in so much, so sing and singing in so much, do not know how to dance with your hands and dance with your feet." This shows that when people are very excited, their inner emotions are difficult to express in words and even singing, they can't help but express them through dancing with your hands and feet.

Most people regard Song Ci as a literary form. In fact, in the Song Dynasty, it was a comprehensive art form that integrates song, dance and music, and it was also a cultural phenomenon. This is the most primitive form of Song Ci.

At the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, women gradually tied their feet into a trend, and three-inch golden lotus gradually became a fashion. Therefore, the dance of the Song Dynasty was far less gorgeous, ostentatious and unrestrained than the dance of the Tang Dynasty, but showed a simple, elegant and restrained style. The characteristics of the dance of the Song Dynasty were "ancient, leisurely, slow, wonderful, and beautiful".

The royal family of the Song Dynasty attached great importance to the music of the banquet. The court music and dance performances were grand, and dancers competed to perform various dance skills, which was dazzling. At that time, the royal band was named Jun Rongzhi, and he was selected from the imperial guards. They played Jiaofang music while traveling in the form of a riding blow.

Song Dynasty dance was not only popular in the palace, but also popular among the people, covering all social classes. For example, Dasheng Mansion was the official office in charge of music in the Northern Song Dynasty, and a kind of palace dance was formed here, namely Dasheng Music and Dance. The emergence of tiles and brothels made the Song Dynasty dance commercialized, with more diverse performance forms and content focused on reflecting social reality.

The dramatic factors in Chinese dance appeared in the Spring and Autumn Period, but were more obvious in the court dance of the Song Dynasty. Character classification, performance, and singing, speech, etc. have appeared. Although most of the court dances have not changed from narrative to endorsement, and are different from those of the actors singing stories and dressing up characters, it laid the foundation for the later formation and development of opera, made sufficient preparations for the formation of the rhythm and system of opera performance art (song, dance, and drama) and also played a foundation for the brilliant performance art of opera all over the world.

Of course, we have to mention that Peking Opera master Mei Lanfang, who planted trees by his predecessors and developed them through the future generations. During the economic depression of the United States, Mei Lanfang was almost full of events when he toured the United States. With his superb acting skills and sorrowful singing style, the master's demeanor quickly conquered foreigners. In the Republic of China, which had been through vicissitudes of war, this was enough to make the Chinese people with low eyebrows happy for their whole lives, and finally had a happy lifelong joy.

The Song Dynasty palace team dance included classic Tang Dynasty dances such as "Zhezhi Dance" and "Sword Dance", and some newly created music and dances in the Song Dynasty. It is mainly divided into two teams: "Children's Team" and "Female Disciple Team", with a large number of performers, and hundreds of people participated in large-scale performances. There are very clear division of roles in the palace team dance, such as "Funxin" who serves as the starring actor, similar to the host's "Bamboozi", the "Singing and Dance Team" who serves as the main part, and the "Backward Walk" who is responsible for the band's accompaniment.

The palace team dance performance has a relatively fixed program. It integrates singing, dancing, recitation, dialogue and other forms, and interspersed with performances in various forms to form a new comprehensive performance form with rich content but order. There is another very important change in the palace team dance, that is, the adaptation of the narrative component is added to the dance. For example, the story plot of the Han Dynasty "Hongmen Banquet" was added to the Han Dynasty, which is an important change in the development from lyrical dance to narrative dance. This is already the introverted stage of Yuan Opera.

During festivals, dance activities are very active. Many professional singing and dancing artists who are no longer supported by the palace and must make a living, and outstanding rural dancers join the city together, forming a professional team for performing for the people of the town and opening up a fixed performance venue, which is called the Wazi Gang. Bianliang in the Northern Song Dynasty was the largest and most prosperous city in the world at that time. There were many Wazi Gangs in the city, and the largest could accommodate thousands of people, which was almost as close to the current metropolis. There were more than 30 Wazi Gangs in Lin'an City in the Southern Song Dynasty. This shows how popular singing and dancing are.

The performances in the broth are numerous and complex, including zaju, acrobatics, storytelling, muddling (similar to crosstalk), movies, puppet shows (a bit like the current shadow puppet show or puppet show), dance spiral, etc. Dance spiral was undoubtedly a unique dance performance form at that time. Because rotation movements may be an important skill in dance, some dance programs are called dance spiral. Today, various rotation movements are still an important part of the basic skills of various dances.

"Tokyo Dream Hualu" restored the lifestyle at that time very comprehensively, which led to the current Songdu Street in Kaifeng and Song Street in Hong Kong. The former was built on the original site of Danei Yu Street, the imperial palace of the Northern Song Dynasty. The restaurants, restaurants, and shops inside were all hip and hanging mountain roofs unique to the Song Dynasty. There are more than 30 shops including various flavors of snack shops, New Year's painting shops, antique shops, palace porcelain shops, and Bianfang Bian embroidery and satin shops. The store was built in imitation of "Along the River During the Qingming Festival", recreating the prosperity of the Song Dynasty's market. The main building of Song Street is Fan Tower, divided into five buildings, east, west, south, north and middle. Visitors can wear Song Dynasty clothes, rest on Song Dynasty furniture, sit on Song Dynasty sedan chairs, enjoy Song Dynasty entertainment, imitate Song Dynasty dishes, listen to Song Dynasty silk and bamboo, and you can be a time traveler here.

Because of the emergence of tiles and railings, folk dances in the Song Dynasty were diverse and very prosperous. For example, "Treading Song" originated from the Tang Dynasty was very popular in the Song Dynasty. This is an ancient form of self-entertainment dance. Dancers sang with their hands and arms, stepping on the ground to make festivals, singing and dancing in harmony, and they have a unique leisurely and contentment. "Lion Dance" is also a dance with a long history, leaving behind a lively and cute "boy plays with lions" dance scene in the paintings of the Song Dynasty.

The folk programs in the Song Dynasty were mostly mainly singing and dancing. The grand occasions of folk songs and dances in towns and villages were reflected in Song lyrics, such as Qiu Yuan wrote in "Love the Moon and Sleeping on the Moon" "When you walk on the shadow of the silhouette of the Lingbo, laugh and pick up the hairpin, and the Lantern Festival is the same as the next. The flute and drum of the Shahe River are just now. The songs are now. The songs are full of dance sleeves and singing skirts. No matter how deep they return", which describes the scene where people are on the streets during the Lantern Festival, and various dance teams are shuttled and the audience is scrambling to the top. The songs in the lyrics are about the performance style of the folk dance team.

Since Zhao Ji ascended the throne, the word "雨" suddenly became popular in Tokyo society. Beautiful women are called "雨", novel clothing is called "雨", and beautiful fruits are called "雨盨". Later, it was developed to describe all beautiful things with the word "雨". Rhyme is the word "雨" to describe it. Rhyme is the meaning of heaven, earth, rhyme, people, rhyme, everything is not rhyme. Rhyme means high-end taste, and only then can we get the word "雨" and go to the Songshang Hall. Although it is a romantic and vulgar and has become a temporary trend, it is better to buy wine in your own house.

Gao Hui invited some noble families and scholars, and naturally there were some clean guests, helping you to accompany you, talk about ancient and modern poetry, recite poems and essays, and entertaining the club, and fill in two small poems at will. This is the real romantic event. Of course, the banquet cannot be so elegant that it is boring. Everything has a procedure. After the elegant, everyone has enough wine and food, and they are all forgotten. At this time, the host family brought out a group of family prostitutes carefully trained to enjoy the guests, which made the banquet reach its climax. Moreover, Cai Jing had already regarded his preferences to prepare a mysterious gift for the official family who had drunk two mahjong in front of him.

A group of women with fragrant skin and beautiful bones walked out from behind the screen, dressed up in a particularly enchanting way. They were uniformly combed the most popular bun at the time, wore a pleated lingbo skirt woven into the "heart" pattern, and a pair of high-top crested shoes sewn with red and white grosgrain. These two-color limelight shoes are called "wrong to the end". After seeing these beaks and swallows simply saluted Zhao Ji, they hid on the stage not far away, and the surrounding light suddenly dimmed, and a white light lit up on the stage where the dancers were on, perhaps unintentional, or intentional. They were not ready yet, and they were now scheming behind the thin curtain, smiling happily, their graceful figures, romantic intentions, and vaguely leaked spring light, causing an inexplicable commotion to Zhao Ji in the stands.

The Grip drum suddenly sounded, and the curtain slowly separated to both sides. There were ten dancers on the field at this moment. Zhao Ji counted it carefully and seemed that one more was one. The one who greeted him before might be the green leaves, but now he is in the center of the stars arching the moon, covering his face with a thin gauze, full of charm, and the blue eyes and high-haired exotic woman who frequently gave Zhao Ji a lot of autumn, perhaps the red-haired and exotic woman in this scene.

The beauties kept changing their dancing postures with the sound of drums, flying in one hand, and then raising their sleeves, suddenly leaping, and suddenly galloping all over the field. They were as light as a swallow that cuts a soft wave and flies low on the water. The green leaves are also unwilling to be outdone. They stood in place together, swaying willow waists, performing a relaxed and pleasant posture, indicating that the green leaves are swaying softly in the spring breeze, and the waist that is not full is enough to show the primitive wildness of being asked for.

Suddenly, with a loud drum, the green leaves lowered their heads, and silk bees and butterflies appeared on their temples, dancing in the wind. Their identities also changed. Now the nine dancers are no longer green leaves but a group of bees and butterflies that are hiding flowers, flying low around the famous flowers, attracting her and chasing her. The famous flowers rejected their seduction and pursuit with the same noble and beautiful posture, making these prodigal sons feel sad one by one.

He withdrew from the scene in a state of silence. In the end, only the famous flower was left alone in the soft world. In this lyrical solo dance, she showed that she not only gained the lightness of being chased, but also maintained the dignity of refusing to pursue. The former is what every famous flower hopes to get, while the latter is what every famous flower has to maintain. The exotic baby cleverly blended these two opposite feelings, bringing the audience in front of her into a world of tranquility in motion.

Suddenly there was another loud gong and drum. The bee and wavedie quickly changed their dance makeup. They put on the scintillating, yellow, sky blue and light purple dance clothes and turned into a group of charming beauties. They appeared again. After they carefully admired the famous flowers one after another, they decided to cut them off and play with them as bottles.

At this time, the dance reached its climax. The beautiful people used many twists and turns to symbolize flower cutting, while Honghua herself completed the most difficult one. When she was cut off by them, she leaned down, folded her waist, and drooped back as much as possible. When Zhao Ji saw her doing this move, he couldn't help but wonder, was it that even three inches of soft bones had been pulled out in this soft waist? In fact, this is true. She seemed to have removed all the bones of her body, so that she could perform as soft as she performed now. She hangs backwards slowly, and moves.

Every inch, every minute requires a suffocating moment. At this time, the soundtrack stopped, and all the noise inside and outside the venue was automatically eliminated. Zhao Ji and Cai Jing were already free of all the activities around him, and they also announced a "pause" with the ongoing sagging. A vacuum and quiet world appeared here. Only when she leaned back to a certain distance did the drummers make a thrilling sound, followed by another gong sound with endless afterglow. This monotonous and powerful dubbing clearly tells the audience the degree of thrilling and difficulty of the action.

The last moment finally arrived. With Zhao Ji's eager expectation, Honghua finally struggled but also competently and happily folded her upper half back, so that the gauze flower on her temples touched the red flake on the ground. Her body was folded into a minimum sharp angle. She overcame difficulties that were not overcome by human power, and thus completed an action that was not completed by human power. She kept this successful action in the final fixed posture and stayed in the cheers and applause of the surrounding audience as if they were falling from the mountain torrent.

Everything was crazy. Now the band no longer dubbed dances, but was busy dubbing the fanatical audience. All music that could enhance the warm atmosphere was played. If Zhao Ji had not been present, the scene would have been in chaos. Zhao Ji had abandoned his reserve, for fear that after the drums stopped, he would be separated from this foreign beauty. He looked at her with that greedy and unreserved look, wishing to swallow her into his stomach.

The prince next to him glanced at this scene and felt very happy. The exotic Persian cat he bought for a lot of money not long ago finally had an amazing effect of fueling the fire and ending perfectly. Zhao Ji loved gold and stone, loved poetry, loved women, loved power, and took what he liked, and took what he wanted. It was not an exaggeration to describe it as a combination of heaven.

Zhao Ji stared at the curtain closed in the middle again, but his whole heart felt as uncomfortable as a cat, but his emperor could not be so obvious, not to mention that this minister has always been smooth, and the beauty might have finished bathing, and the fragrant Luo was on his back, and the spring was beautiful. When the banquet here was over, Zhao Ji ordered the chalet to be like a beautiful person and let him pick up the sword, not to mention that he came to the prime minister's house, not to mention that he was not just for the spring night.
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