Since China entered the medieval period, cultures from India, Central Asia, and northern nomadic peoples entered the Central Plains of the Han Chinese region, bringing new forms and reshaping the aesthetic form of Chinese banquet dance. Compared to the previous period, the new banquet dance of the medieval period exhibits three characteristics: first, the contraction of dance space; second, the symbolization of dance movements; and third, the concretization of dance content. These three characteristics jointly contributed to the gradual transformation of Chinese dance from technical display to narrative drama since the Han Dynasty and also had an impact on the aesthetic taste of the audience.

Yuan Kong. The New Changes in Form and Cultural Motivations of Banquet Dance in Medieval China. Academic Journal of Humanities & Social Sciences (2023) Vol. 6, Issue 13: 7-14. https://doi.org/10.25236/AJHSS.2023.061302.

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