From The Natural Folk Form To Scientific System

Chinese dance has a long history, growing together with the development of Chinese civilization. The ethnic and folk dance survived in the shaking history and society with strong vitality. It's the most colorful and gorgeous folk dance form in the world!This paper focus on the contemporary education system of Chinese ethnic and folk dance, studying on the experiences and problems in the process of development and trying to explore the solutions. This system has very complex connections with different levels of ethnic and folk dance, not only because of the natural relationship with traditional folk dance from the very beginning, but also the function of professional education, which is a very unique dance culture in the world. The paper made an overall analysis on the teaching achievement during last 5 decades, in order to promote the scientific construction and sustainable development of this education system. Therefore, Dance Ecology, with the purpose of revealing the regulations of development of ethnic dance, has become the important epistemological and methodological basis. On one hand, the scientific theory and method of multi-dimensional inspection and morphological analysis provide a right way to study on Chinese folk dance education. On the other hand, the philosophy and methods of "dance culture comparison" offer a very important inspiration. Hope the theme of the paper and the use of above ideas, principles and methods, will achieve both innovative and practical performance for Chinese ethnic and folk dance education and even the dance education.This paper includes the following main aspects: Firstly, the essential nature of Chinese folk dance education system, which is a combination between inheritance of native folk dance and scientific professional education. Secondly, the review on the history, from which we can think over both problems and the achievements. Thirdly, the confusion when we are facing the reality. For that we need to analyze the objective conditions and cultural environment changes, as well as the differences of subjective knowledge. Fourthly, the proposal of the solution for sustainable development of this system. All the issues are on the basis of "sample analysis " to avoid being vague and impractical. Finally, the idea of enhancing the cultural integrity and values by the guidance of cultural awareness and consciousness, through which we can pursue the goal of protecting intangible cultural heritage and playing the role of traditional art in modern society.This education system is not an isolated ivory tower or a pursuit of fashion, but a duty originated from the history and reality.