Why are people in China so obsessed with pentatonic scale?

The reason why people in China are so obsessed with pentatonic scale is that pentatonic scale is a unique traditional music theory in China and a characteristic of Chinese folk songs, so many famous composers compose music with pentatonic scale.

The pentatonic scale is in the order of five degrees, from Gong Yin to Yu Yin, and the order is Gong-Shang-Jiao-Zheng-Yu; If arranged in pitch order, it is: 1 2 3 5 6 palace quotient angle sign (zhǐ) feather. "He, Si, B, Chi and Gong" were used in the Tang Dynasty. China's traditional music theory often reveals the modern concept of "scale" from different angles such as sound, rhythm and sound.

Many folk songs in our country not only don't use 12 notes, but even seven are too many. Just use "12356", which is called pentatonic scale. It is said that apart from China, only Scottish folk songs are pentatonic in the world, which is quite rare. Although only five notes are used, Chinese folk songs have their own charm.

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The pentatonic scale is characterized in that it has no chromatic (minor) interval, and is called "pentatonic scale without chromatic" or "pentatonic scale with whole tone" in detail. Widely popular in Asia, Africa, some islands in the Central Pacific, Hungary and Scotland, and among native American tribes before Europeans arrived in America.

is often called "China scale". Its five orders have special names in the traditional culture of China, namely: Gong, Shang, Jiao, Zheng and Yu. In the Tang Dynasty, "He, Si, B, Chi and Gong" were used. Its interval organization is that there are three whole tones within each octave, which are divided into two strings (Gong-Shang-Jiao) and a single (Zheng-Yu), and the two segments are separated by tones.