Traditional Chinese music includes

During the Zhou Dynasty, the government set up a music organization under the supervision of the "Da Shi Le". It taught music and morality, music and language, and music and dance.

In 221 B.C.E., Ying Zheng unified the six kingdoms and set up an official office specializing in the management of music, the Music Office;

Liu Bang established the Western Han Dynasty and expanded the institution and functions of the Music Office.

Liu Bang established the Western Han Dynasty, expanding the organization and functions of the Music Office, which not only emphasized folk music, but also included the music of the Western Regions, the Northern Di, and other remote ethnic groups.

During the Han and Wei Dynasties, the court introduced a number of folk dances and plays.

During the Two Jin and Northern and Southern Dynasties, there were extensive exchanges between the music cultures of the foreigners and those of the Central Plains, which made the period a significant one for the music history, carrying on the history of the past and the future.

Social stability and economic prosperity in the north and south during the Sui and Tang dynasties created favorable conditions for the development of music and art. The Tang rulers widely absorbed foreign music and culture, which made music reach a peak of development. Poetry was sung in famous songs, and the fusion of literature and music became a feature of the development of Chinese classical music. Li Bai's Guanshan Yue, Du Fu's Qingming, Liu Yuxi's Bamboo Branch Song, and Wang Zhihuan's Liangzhou Lyrics. Some of them have been passed down as folk songs for a long time in the folklore, while others have been absorbed by qin artists and preserved in the form of qin songs.

The Song Dynasty was the golden age of lyric songwriting, with the gradual prosperity of the urban economy, the expanding civic class, and the center of gravity of social music activities moving from the court to the secular. In the Northern Song Dynasty, there were already places of music activities for the public, such as "Hook Lan" and "Tour Hut", and the lyric music, rap music and opera music, which were suitable for the public and the literati, developed particularly rapidly;

Ming Dynasty and Qing Dynasty saw the prominent development of handicrafts and commodity economy, and the music of the public gradually became a major part of the public's music. The Ming and Qing dynasties, with the prominent development of handicraft industry and commodity economy, the music of the public gradually became the main component of music and art. Self-indulgent folk songs, folk songs and dance music, as well as rap and opera music with a commodity nature, all gained unprecedented artistic achievements in history during this period, and the development of Beijing Opera and Opera also presented a brilliant historical stage.