Understanding of China Folk Music Culture

The understanding of China national music culture is as follows:

1. Folk music was called "popular music" in ancient times, which is a concept opposite to court music. It refers to music popular outside the court and created by people including intellectuals. It is mainly the collective creation of the people, mainly oral communication, some individual creations of the people, and some individual categories supplemented by written records.

2. Because traditional music is an inherent national music in our country, and because the court music in it has not existed at present, musicologists use "national folk music" to refer to the folk music in our traditional music.

3. National folk music is mainly the collective creation of the people, relying on oral circulation, so both content and form have strong variability. In Yu, et al.' Questions and Answers of Basic Musicology'. It also introduces its local, impromptu, popular and multifaceted characteristics.

Cultural types of national folk music

1, national music culture

This is a musical culture formed by folk songs, national instrumental music, national songs and dances, national folk art and national operas produced by 56 ethnic groups in China. The music culture of all ethnic groups is accumulated in the long-term inheritance activities and has distinctive national characteristics, which is different from the music of other ethnic groups. It is a musical culture that people of all ethnic groups have truly and simply reflected in people's feelings through long-term artistic practice activities.

4. Religious music culture

China's religious music culture for thousands of years, like an endless river, came from ancient times and continues in the contemporary era. The religious music culture with Taoist music culture as its main content has left an indelible impression on people. Although Buddhist music culture is also very common all over the country, the nationality of Taoist music culture is deeply rooted in people's ideological understanding.