Song and dance is a bright pearl in China classical dance culture. It is famous for the basic structure of the dance language of "stepping on the ground for the festival and dancing hand in hand". The history of singing and dancing can be traced back to a long time ago. Painted pottery dance pots unearthed in Shangsunjiazhai, Datong County, Qinghai Province, have a history of more than 5,800 years, with 15 dancers dancing hand in hand during the festival. There are as many as 24 dancers holding hands on the painted pottery pots unearthed in Qinghai. A rock painting is carved on the boulder of Harifeng in the east of Urad Zhonghou United Banner in Inner Mongolia. In the photo, a man and a woman are dancing arm in arm. Judging from their toes, it seems that their faces are opposite. These precious historical sites show that our ancestors of the Chinese nation have been dancing hand in hand on the Chinese land for the holidays more than 6,000 years ago.

In the Han Dynasty, tap dance was not only widely circulated among the people, but also adapted into a communication and entertainment dance loved by officials and literati. There is a picture of men and women dancing with long sleeves on the Han Dynasty stone in Qishan, Pei County, Jiangsu Province. There are also pictures of men and women dancing with long sleeves on the ground and lingering in the hundred plays of the Eastern Han Tomb in Inner Mongolia. At that time, there was a kind of seven-disc dance, also called stepping on drums, which was named after stepping on seven flat drums. Seven sets of butoh inspired, warm atmosphere, all the rage. Zhang Heng of the Han Dynasty wrote in Dance Fu: "So, I am quiet and ambitious. Wandering endlessly and thinking for a long time. Its source is also, if it is leaning, if it comes, if it goes. Graceful and melancholy, not as an image. It is not very advanced either, if it flies, if it goes, if it falls. Move the section to refer to the answer. " Se has long sleeves crossed with the wind. "This shows the touching dance rhyme inspired by stepping. Ordinary people don't have so many plates to step on, so it's enough to step on the ground to entertain themselves during the holidays.

Since Zhang Qian's mission to the Western Regions, the envoys of the Han Dynasty have successively arrived in Rest (Persia), Body Poison (India), Li Xuan (also known as Daqin, that is, Rome), Shan State (Myanmar) and other countries, and the cultural exchange with foreign countries is a climax in history. China's tap dancing has also spread abroad.

Tang Dynasty is a stage of great development of stepping on songs and dances. Tapping songs is not only an important self-entertainment activity for ordinary people, but also transformed into court dance. Dazzling golden lotus, stepping on golden lotus and stepping on songs are all popular court dances. There are many words about stepping songs in Tang poetry. The poet Li Bai wrote in his poem "To Wang Lun": "Li Bai was about to go boating when he heard singing on the shore." Peach Blossom Pond is deeper than thousands of feet, but not as good as Wang Lun. Liu Yuxi not only wrote four "Treading Lyrics", but also recorded "Treading Songs" in "The Preface of Zhi Zhu": singing Zhi Zhu Ci, playing piccolo, drumming and dancing. When dancing, regardless of gender, form a circle, hold hands, dance and sing, and have fun. In 7 13 AD, the royal family of the Tang Dynasty held a tap dance outside Anfumen, in which more than a thousand women participated. People sang and danced under a brilliant lantern wheel, with 50,000 lamps burning more than 20 feet high, and danced for three days and three nights. The scene is spectacular. This shows the prevalence of tap dance in Tang Dynasty.

During the Lantern Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival in the Song Dynasty, grand tap dancing activities will be held. Cai Bian once described it in "Xuan He Hua Pu": "On the night of Mid-Autumn Festival, women embrace each other and dance under the moon". In Song Dynasty, Ma Yuan's famous painting "Tugetu" depicts four old people singing on a winding mountain road. The painting has the inscription of Emperor Ningzong: "It has been rainy and sunny for decades, and Lidicheng in Chaoyang; In a good year, people are happy and walking on the embankment. " In the eyes of the Emperor of Song Dynasty, stepping on a song and dance is a symbol of the country's stability and prosperity.

In the Yuan Dynasty and beyond, tap dancing was submerged by the historical turmoil in Han areas. But it did leave the seeds of popularization in the brotherly ethnic areas. In the colorful dance culture of China Brothers, there are many kinds of dances related to tap dancing. For example, Manchu's mangshi, Mongolian's Diane Dance, Ewenki's Yikan, Oroqen's Dahanda, Hui's Banquet Dance, Bao 'an's Duolang Dance, Uygur's Qiafuzi and Tibetan's Dui Harmony. "Hand-in-hand dance" has been circulating in Gaoshan nationality area of Taiwan Province Province for more than 1000 years, and it is called "Malikula" in Gaoshan language, which is the oldest self-entertainment dance among Gaoshan folk dances. According to the Biography of Northern History, "When one person sings, all people are in harmony, and the voice is quite sad, holding the woman on his shoulder and waving his hand and dancing." As can be seen from the records, this kind of "hand in hand dance" basically maintained the original rhythm of stepping and dancing. As can be seen from the above, China has a long history of classical tap dancing.