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Chinese Traditional Dance
According to Wen Yiduo (1899–1946), “dance is the most direct, the most substantive, the strongest, the sharpest, the simplest, and the most bountiful performance of the emotional life.”
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明清兩代舞蹈表演因何衰落?
明清兩代,舞蹈作為獨立的表演藝術,有逐漸衰落的趨勢,社會上很少專業的舞蹈表演團體和舞蹈藝人。但是,作為節慶時群眾的娛樂活動的民間歌舞,卻呈現繁榮的局面,表演者多數是業餘的民間藝人。