Tsinghua Bamboo Slips Yue Feng from the Perspective of Dance Notation
The Tsinghua bamboo slips Yue Feng may be music and dance scores.The first part appears to be the music score,with Yue Feng as its title,while the second part seems to be a dance notation based on a certain poetry text.By removing the three characters"Jie""Qu",and"Zhi",the dance notation divides into four groups,each consisting of three sentences with 15 characters,following a fixed sentence structure of"XX Qu XX".This dance score is intended for group dance performances,and the character"Jie"signifies continuation and connection,showing that dance formations are connected.If there is no"Jie"at the beginning of a sentence,the formation is relatively loose.The character"Qu"denotes a transition from one movement to the next.The terms"Xi","Da",and"Xiao"are abbreviations for the three movements"Xi dance""Da dance",and"Xiao dance".The terms"Shang"and"Xia"refer to the two directions of these three dance movements.
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