"Good at dancing with long sleeves" is a famous saying in the Warring States Period. From one aspect, it shows that China is a big silk country, and it also proves that the dance featuring long sleeves has already spread in China. There is a lot of evidence of long-sleeved dancing in Han Dynasty. For example, there is a dancer who is good at dancing with long sleeves on the Han Dynasty stone relief in Nanyang Shiqiao, Henan Province. She put one hand on the floor, one hand dragged on the floor, and one leg raised, as if doing a sideways jump. The dance is unrestrained and beautiful. Similar images have certain typical significance in Han portraits. Of course, long-sleeved dance is a musical dance developed due to the characteristics of clothing, while the hem of women's dresses in Han Dynasty is wide and long, and sometimes it is necessary to strengthen the dance momentum through the movement of hand sleeves. A Han stone relief in Xuzhou, Jiangsu Province just illustrates this point.

It is worth noting that such a moving performance is sometimes decorated with exquisite curtains in quite open areas and sometimes indoors. More importantly, the long-sleeved dance performance is with the band. There may be more or fewer musicians, and sometimes only one person can be seen on the screen. For example, the above picture of a Han dynasty stone, playing the flute, is very devoted. The musical instruments that accompany the long-sleeved dance are Xiao, Drum, Fu, Sheng, Lian and cymbals. In many cases, there are singers to accompany the dancers.

Women are good at dancing with long sleeves, sometimes in the form of duet. For example, in the Han Dynasty stone relief in Qishan, Pei County, Jiangsu Province, we can see the vivid scene of two female dancers waving sleeves and dancing. Their bodies are tilted, their sleeves are symmetrical, their waists are soft and elegant, and their sleeves are as long as the ground without waving. Around them, there are musicians accompanying them, and two people seem to be clapping their hands and singing. The form of "duet" shows that long-sleeved dancing is often performed as a small program. Because individual performances are naturally higher than group performances, so that they can be noticed by the audience. The appearance of a large number of "long sleeves and good dancing" in Han portraits proves its special position in music and dance in Han Dynasty, which is probably caused by the audience's special love at that time. Hundreds of musical dances in the tombs of the Eastern Han Dynasty unearthed in Inner Mongolia are in the form of long sleeves. Therefore, in the form of "duet", there are many forms of "long-sleeved dance", such as women's duet with long sleeves, men's duet with long sleeves, men's daily clothes small sleeve duet, men's or women's folding sleeves duet and so on. Images of men and women with long sleeves and good dancing can be seen in Han Dynasty stone reliefs in Peixian County, Jiangsu Province. In the history of dance in China, Mr. Song Peng thought it was "accompanied by drums, harps and other bands, women's slender waist dresses rolled up their sleeves and danced sideways, while men across the street wore short robes and shorts and put down their sleeves and danced".