A Study Of Qinglong Dance And Its Music

The Qing dynasty music inherited the system of Ming Dynasty, including five parts of the sacrifice music, the ceremony music, the banquet music, the welcome music and the tour music. All of them, within the exception of Kuning Palace Tangzi Sacrifice, belong to the banquet music characterized in various minorities features, which covers Qinglong Dance, Jiachui movement,Fanbu Concert, Hui Concert and Kaerka Concert. Though the music above are all minorities music, they are certainly incorporated into the Hanzu system of etiquette and music.Most historical written texts are about Qinglong Dance, which is the only remaining work of ManChu Music and of great significance. According to lvlvzhengyihoubian, Qinglong Dance has two parts of Yanglie Dance and Xiqi Dance. The paper will make a list of banquet dances from different dynasties based on The Manuscript of the History of Qing Dynasty---The music part and make a delicate analysis of the show time, sites and dancers of Qinglong Dance in order to get a restoration of it based on lvlvzhengyihoubian, Laws andSystems of the Qing Dynasty, The True Records of the Qing Dynasty and Qijuzhu of dynasties.Qinglong dance was named in the eighth year of Qianlong Regime in the Qing Dynasty. The first form was the feast of music and dance, team dance and contredance. After denominating, it was the variant for the emperor birthday dance, Empress Dowager Shou emperor personally dance, Caiyi dance. The name was not mentioned in Qinglong dance historical materials, but it scattered in memoir of Qing Dynasty and "living note" in other dynasties. It is vital for study of Qing long dance evolution and development. Daoguang 15 years it played for the Empress Dowager birthday and Tongzhi, Guangxu’s wedding celebration of long dance which is equivalent of Emperor Qianlong Yanglie dance, both exist function transformation.It is true in music, now the only remaining of Qinglong dance music is translated from the Gongche notation of Lulu justice, according to the twelve months corresponding twelve temperament and correlated with the emperor and the empress dowager, combined with different field otherwise stipulated. This paper will combine specific performance from the historical Qinglong dance, firstly, to explore the transformation from masks and costumes, dancing, musical instruments and music and music rhetoric, secondly, to analyze the reform of the organization and the function, finally, to research the the variation reason of the Qinglong dance and music. In order to display the historical trajectory of the development and changes of Qinglong dance more comprehensively.