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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
Cham dance
Yak-tail Banner dance
Daxia
Chinese Cultural Dance Item Type Metadata
orignal date
Zhou dynasty
Popular Time
Zhou dynasty
Stylistic Origins
Chinese
Zhou dynasty
Zhou dynasty
Culture Origins
Chinese
Six Small Dances
Six Small Dances
Main Participants
young aristocrats
Purpose
rituals
veneration of the Earth and Grain Gods
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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