What kind of music does Chinese folk music mean?

Folk music is a song or music produced and circulated among the people, which expresses folk life and production. China's national music art is a very distinctive art form in the world. In the course of thousands of years of civilization, the Chinese nation has created a large number of excellent national music cultures and formed a profound and rich national music system. This system plays an important role in world music. If we want to know about China music, we can't just sing some China songs and listen to some traditional music. We should also study China's music and understand China's music from national, historical and regional perspectives, so as to truly understand the connotation of China's music and its position and historical value in the world music system.

China national music is divided into: folk songs, folk song and dance music, folk instrumental music, folk rap music and folk opera music.

China is a country with thousands of years of civilization, and China music is one of the earliest music in human history. According to archaeological excavations and historical records, our ancestors could make playing instruments such as bone flute and clay about 7000 years ago. By the time of Fuxi, silk stringed instruments, guqin and harp had been invented, and the creation of sheng spring and temperament theory appeared in the time of Huangdi. All these findings show that our ancestors had considerable creativity and aesthetic ability in music at that time. Later, after the development of dynasties, the music of the Han nationality [1] [2] became more and more mature, forming a music system with rich content, complete theory and distinctive characteristics based on the five-tone style [2], namely, palace, Shanghai, horn, Zheng and Yu. This system is not only deeply rooted in China's music culture, but also spread to many countries and regions in the world, becoming an important part of the world music system.

The development of China's music is closely related to social and economic development and cultural exchanges among countries. China's traditional music is formed and developed through the exchange and integration of the Central Plains music centered on the Yellow River Basin, four-domain music (referring to the Yellow River Basin, Huaihe River Basin, Yangtze River Basin and Pearl River Basin) and foreign music.

The communication between China music and foreign music has a long history. In the Han Dynasty, with the introduction of Buddhism, Hindu music and Tianzhu music began to be introduced into China. Since Zhang Qian's mission to the Western Regions, he has exerted an important influence on China's music.