China News Service, Yinchuan, May 18 (Reporter Yu Jing) Wearing a round-neck tight-fitting narrow-sleeved shirt, a tight-leg skirt, and long leather boots, two male dancers were carved between the two stone-carved tomb gates. , cross the Millennium Silk Road, and come with the "Hu Xuan Dance".
On May 18, "International Museum Day", many tourists from Ningxia Museum stopped in front of Shimen.
Dressed strangely and dancing unrestrainedly, the stone gates are carved with typical "Hu people", and the dance they dance is "Hu Xuan Dance".
According to records, "Hu Xuan Dance" was originally a music and dance popular in Kanguo in the Western Regions. It was later introduced to the Central Plains through the Silk Road and became one of the most popular dances in the Tang Dynasty.
"Hu Xuan Dance" has a clear rhythm, is galloping and cheerful, and rotates and pedals more, hence the name Hu Xuan.
Before the excavation of the "Hu Xuanwu Stone Carved Tomb Gate", this dance was only seen in records, and there was no physical image left. It was very mysterious. It was not until the appearance of the stone carved tomb gate that it was proved that there was a dance, and it became a symbol of cultural exchanges between China and foreign countries on the Silk Road. One of the best witnesses.
It is understood that in 1985, the "Hu Xuanwu Stone Carved Tomb Gate" was unearthed from the Tang Tomb in Siziliang, Subujing Township, Yanchi County, Ningxia.
According to the epitaph of the tomb of Sizi Liang and Tang Dynasty, the owner of the tomb was a Sogdian from Central Asia, and historical records called the Sogdians as the "nine surnames of Zhaowu", headed by the surname Kang.
"New Book of Tang: Biography of the Western Regions" says: "Kang people are addicted to alcohol, love singing and dancing, and are particularly fascinated by Hu Xuan dance."
"With the sound of the string drum, the sleeves are raised, and the snow flutters in a fluttering dance."
This silk road relic, which has been buried in the dust for more than 1,300 years in the years and the yellow sand, makes the most dazzling fashion dance of the prosperous Tang Dynasty - "Hu Xuan Dance", come from the depths of history.
On the door of the stone-carved tomb, the dancers each stepped on a small round blanket, and the dancers danced in pairs.
"Walking" to the tomb gate from the world is enough to show that the "Hu Xuan Dance" has become a typical representative of the Tang cultural entertainment performance at that time.
Li Jinzeng, director of the Ningxia Museum, introduced that during the Song and Yuan Dynasties, due to the severance of the Silk Road and the rise of Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism, the "Hu Xuan Dance" declined along with the decline of the music and dance culture.
But it is not completely dead. Its dance elements may be inherited by the ethnic minority dances in the northwest, especially in the ethnic minority songs and dances in Ningxia, Gansu, Qinghai, Xinjiang and other places, which still retain the characteristics of rapid rotation, and the accompaniment is mostly drums. These all permeate the elements of the Tang Dynasty Huxuan Dance.
The "Hu Xuanwu Stone Carved Tomb Gate" not only displays the "Hu Xuan Dance" recorded in historical materials in physical form, but also is a historical testimony of the openness and inclusiveness of the Tang Dynasty. The fact that Sogdians migrated to Ningxia along the Silk Road provides evidence.
At the same time, the "Hu Xuan Dance" picture displayed on this national treasure-level cultural relic profoundly reflects the process of Chinese national migration and integration.
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