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This Relying on its unique geographical location and long historical precipitation, Jiangnan culture has formed a very distinctive "near business, near water" humanistic style, which has become an important source of inspiration and choreographic elements for Jiangnan dance to condense and carry forward the regional culture. Jiangnan dance is a part of Jiangnan culture, in order to better show the cultural landscape of the Jiangnan region, dance choreographers in-depth regional picking, digging danceable elements at the same time, launched a bold imagination, creating a vivid and real dance masterpieces in Jiangnan. This paper focuses on the main line of "research on the integration of Jiangnan culture and spirit into the choreography of regional dance works", and takes the dance drama "Century Of The Fan" as the object of analysis, and analyses it from various dimensions such as "excavation and application of materials", "selection of materials and expression of the dance drama", etc. It also focuses on the development of the dance drama "Century Of The Fan". From the dimensions of "excavation and use of materials" and "selection and expression of dance drama", it clarifies that Jiangnan culture and spirit, after being organically integrated into the choreography of the dance drama through craftsmanship inheritance, philosophy of life, and the pursuit of Chinese national values, reflect the beautiful virtues of Jiangnan people's simplicity, kindness, gentleness and resilience, and provide references to the ideas and reference value of the choreography of regional dance works.
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