Ancient Chinese Music and Foreign Exchange

The music cultural exchange between Chinese people and foreign nations in ancient times was recorded in Li's Spring and Autumn Annuals:Ancient Music.In it,the Yellow Emperor gives Ling Lun,a music...

The Birth of New Chinese Opera

After "MTay 4th" New Culture Movement, opera, a large integrated art form from Europe came to China with the incoming western culture, which also caught the concern and was used by Chinese c...

Chinese Music of the Qin and Han Dynasties

The Qin Dynasty (221-206 BC), as a centralized empire, was the first to establish an official organization a music institute for music management for both political and cultural unification.The offici...

Improvement of Chinese Instrumental Music

Since the 20th century,the development of instrumental music in China has undergone a process from blind self-content to total negation to rediscovery and utilization,gradually moving from immaturity...

Entering the 20th century, Chinese music started a new era.

With the implementation of "rescinding keju (old education and talent-selection system of ancient China) and promoting schools" and other "new political measures" and the"Sugg...

Suzhou Tanci

Tanci (storytelling) is the representative variety in South China, mainly popular in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River region, with three places-Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Shanghai as the center, and...

The Music of Jingyun Dagu

The music of Jingyun dagu has a rich variety of banqiang (tunes), complete structure,beautiful melody,distinctive rhythm,and very expressive. It is good at significant interval jumping,and utilizing m...

The Rise of Contemporary Chinese Music Culture

China has undergone tremendous changes in the 20th century, including the culture of the whole society, social value orientation and people's way of thinking. This is also a phase of East-West cul...

Chinese Quyi Music

After the establishment of the People's Republic of China, according to statistics, more than 400 quyi types are actively practiced among the people. The quyi types of the Han Chinese can be rough...

The Structure of Chinese Peking Opera

In Beijing opera,play structure is generated by the demands of perfor mance.The structure of every play is designed to display the skills of major per formers through the porrayal of the feelings and...