古越族先民乐舞艺术表现形态摭述

A Critical Review of Artistic Forms in Yue Musical Dance and Drama

2000多年前建都于古会稽的越国,是个精神文化上的强国。在破吴“九术”中,勾践曾把“五色”“五音”作为动摇敌国根本的首要举措。良渚文化和河姆渡文化层的开掘,打破了历史上“贵中原贱吴越”的偏见,各地出土的青铜器,如越王剑、伎乐屋、图腾鸠杖和各种乐器,进而为古越族先民在“礼”“乐”和造型艺术上高度发展和贡献提供了佐证。

The Yue State, which was founded more than 2000 years ago and made Huiji its capital , exerted strong cultural influence. In destroying the Wu State, Gou Jian.the king of Yue,used'the five colours 'and'the five notes (of traditional Chinese music)as a major means of undermining the enemy state. Discoveries of the earlier Liangzhu and Hemudu culture show how biased the idea of 'highly valuing the ancient Central Plains culture and undervaluing ancient Wu and Yue culture'was. Such bronze ware as the King of Yue's sword, a model of the house of female dancers,a staff carved with totem figures of turtledove, and different kinds of musical instruments have been unearthed throughout the regions south of the lower Yangtze River. They have decisively proved that ancient Yue people made a notable contribution to the 'rites','music'and formative arts in ancient China.