Long ago, primitive men had dances imitating animals. The "dance of the hundred beasts" was not a performance using real animals as in a circus, but a religious ritual dance similar to the annual nuowu dances to drive out evil.
原始人類早有模仿動物的舞蹈，所謂「百獸率舞」，並非指馬戲團裡的動物表演，而是一種具有類似「儺舞」的宗教儀式舞蹈。