First, the "entertainment" characteristics of early China dance.
The origin and development of any art have different historical tracks and laws. As one of the most brilliant art forms in China, China Opera has dual functions of "entertaining people" and "entertaining gods" in its original form. Different from China opera, China dance has only a single function of "entertaining the gods" in its initial form, and its prototype structure is the primitive "religious custom". These characteristics can be seen from the dance pictures of ancient rock paintings found in China at present.
In primitive society, dance is a part of primitive life, not for aesthetics, but for the needs of primitive life. At that time, dance was mainly manifested in totem worship, sacrifice to God, reproductive worship and hunting ceremony. Totem is the symbol of primitive ancestors' clan gods, and each clan has its own totem worship and totem belief. Totem worship penetrated into all fields of primitive ancestors' lives, and primitive ancestors living under totem worship used dances to express their own pictures. ...