Analysis of Musicians,Musical Instruments,Musical Bands,and Cultural Information in Music and Dance Images of Maijishan Grottoes
The music and dance images of Maijishan Grottoes are mostly cultural relics from the Northern Dynasties period.In the early Northern Wei Dynasty,the image of music performers had the style of ethnic minorities in the Western Regions,and gradually evolved towards the Han style in the Central Plains.The musical instrument images in the Maijishan Grottoes focus more on realism,with Hu music accounting for a certain proportion of the instrument images.The depiction is delicate and has high historical value.In Cave 127,an earlier Jingbian painting band in China appeared,with a certain scale,which is closely related to the popular Xiliang music of the same period.Overall,the traditional cultural characteristics of the Central Plains are prominent in the music and dance images of the Maijishan Grottoes,while also reflecting the di-verse characteristics of music and dance styles coexisting in the Western Regions,Xianbei,Southern Dynas-ties,and other regions.
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