Five-Colour Silk Dance

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Title

Five-Colour Silk Dance
帗舞

Subject

Chinese cultural dance

Description

Being a traditionally agricultural society, the Chinese focuses a lot on having good harvest. The Five-Colour Silk Dance is performed for the worshipping of Earth and Grain Gods, aiming to generate a lot of food for themselves. The name of this dance is originated from the five-colour silk tied to a pole used during performance.

Relation

Chinese Imperial Dance
Cham dance
Yak-tail Banner dance
Daxia

Chinese Cultural Dance Item Type Metadata

orignal date

Zhou dynasty

Stylistic Origins

Chinese
Zhou dynasty

Culture Origins

Chinese
Six Small Dances

Main Participants

young aristocrats

Purpose

rituals
veneration of the Earth and Grain Gods

Dress Code

lost in records

Typical Instruments

a pole with silks in five colours

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