The dance images in folk music include Tiangong music and dance in Jingbian paintings, folk song and dance scenes in murals, and national dance images such as Hu Xuan, Hu Teng, Zhe Zhi, and Nishang Feather Dance.

Dunhuang dance adheres to the principles of traditional Chinese aesthetics, absorbs and draws lessons from the dance postures of various ethnic groups in the Western Regions, and combines the rhythm and rhythm of classical dance to form a relatively complete system of dance movements and shapes. Dunhuang dance has its own uniqueness. Imagery is also an important aesthetic feature of music art and dance art, but music image and dance image each have their own characteristics.

The shaping of dance image depends entirely on the actor's body movements. The performative nature of dance is the basis of image. In dance dramas or dance works that focus on describing characters, the dance image mainly refers to the character image created by dance movements, postures, expressions and shapes.

Dance style

Dunhuang dance, as a brand-new dance style, was born in the large-scale national dance drama "Flowers on the Silk Road" in 1979. It makes the dances in Dunhuang murals come alive. The audience, attracted the attention of the world. Dunhuang dance has strong Silk Road cultural characteristics, and its content is based on the Mogao Grottoes mural materials.

The dances, costumes and music of various ethnic groups along the Silk Road are reproduced. Its direct source is a large number of ancient dance postures on the murals of Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes. It is a new dance "resurrected" and created by contemporary dance artists based on the study of dance postures in ancient Dunhuang murals and inspired by the Dunhuang music and dance murals. kind.