What is Chinese Folk Music

Chinese folk music is: musical compositions created by Chinese people that conform to the general style of Chinese music.

Chinese folk music, also known as traditional Chinese folk music. It refers to traditional Chinese music played with traditional Chinese instruments in solo or ensemble form. Chinese folk instrumental music has a long history. From the Western Zhou Dynasty to the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, folk music was popular in the form of instrumental music, such as playing the sheng, blowing yu, drumming, striking the building, and playing the qin. At that time, qin masters such as Shi Juan and Shi Kuang, as well as famous qin tunes such as "The High Mountain" and "Running Water" emerged.

The Drum and Blow Music of the Qin and Han Dynasties, the Qing Shang Music of the Wei and Jin Dynasties, the Pipa Music of the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the Fine Music and Qing Music of the Song Dynasty, and the Shifan Drums and Gongs, Strings and Strings of the Yuan and Ming Dynasties have been played in a rich and varied form. The various genres and forms in recent times are the inheritance and development of traditional forms. Folk instrumental music includes solo performances of various instruments, as well as repertoire and ensemble performances of various combinations of different instruments.

Chinese folk music can be divided into six categories according to its genre and artistic characteristics: folk songs, song and dance music, rap music, opera music, folk instrumental music and comprehensive music. Each type of music has a variety of genres, forms, musical types and works. The combination of different instruments, different repertoire and performance styles form a wide variety of instrumental music.

Wang Luobin's songs are beautiful, stretching, loved by the masses and rich in national flavor. His songs such as "Kangding Love Song", "Half Moon Climbing Up", "Mayira", "In That Faraway Place", "Alamu Khan", "Yaxi", "The Girl in Dasaka City", "Chairman Salam", etc., are well known in China, and many of them have been compiled into the teaching materials of vocal music in universities.

Categories of Chinese folk music:

1. Folk songs are divided into different genres, such as labor songs, mountain songs, ditties, long songs, and songs for multiple voices, etc.; the same is a mountain song, but also due to the different regions and nationalities, and the style is very different, each with its own characteristics.

2, song and dance music, accompanied by folk dance singing and instrumental music.

3, rap music, rap art is said, sung, table, the trinity of art. Also known as the art of song.

4, opera music, opera is a comprehensive use of actors on the stage singing, reading, doing, playing and other artistic means, dress up the role, perform stories, to love, reason, art, moving, teaching, entertaining theater art.

5, national musical instruments, as early as two thousand years in the Zhou Dynasty, there are more than seventy kinds of musical instruments. To today's regular use of musical instruments has reached more than two hundred kinds. According to its playing method and performance, can be divided into four categories: wind instruments, stringed instruments, stringed instruments and percussion instruments.