Western classical music is well preserved, why is it that very little ancient Chinese music has been handed down?

Many people who are fond of music will find that Chinese classical music has not been handed down very much, which is the reason for this phenomenon? In addition, there are some people, they through some international comparisons will also find that the West of their classical music is still relatively well preserved. And a lot of very famous music from the last century has been well preserved.

The ones that have been passed down are not particularly numerous

But for the Chinese classical music in ancient times there was also a more developed phenomenon, but it was not well preserved, and it also made a lot of netizens feel particularly sorry. In the end, what kind of reason would lead to the Chinese and Westerners in the preservation of music in this aspect of the performance, and not a largely the same? The main reason for this is that there is a difference in the way music is recorded, and in ancient times in China it was recorded in a variety of ways, but on the whole it wasn't very professional, and only a very small number of people were able to master it.

Because of the differences in the way music was recorded,

there is a risk that it will be lost in the process of transmission, and that the way the music was recorded, such as the Working Ruler Score and the Subtracted Score, might be too specialized. Moreover, there were some difficulties in learning to record in this way, so it did not become a widespread phenomenon. In addition, in the West, they used pentatonic and stave scores to record, and such records are more common in our lives, and we find that such records are very easy to use. That's why we are still using this kind of sheet music to record some musical works.

Five-string and simple music to record more convenient

So some of the Western music works like this through this simpler way is also more smoothly passed down, China has a lot of archaeologists, they are in the process of some professional knowledge to translate some of the music of the ancient times, but also will find that the ancient Chinese way of recording music is very complex. It takes a lot of work to accumulate and organize and collect the relevant materials to be able to translate these classical music works again, so it also takes a lot of effort in this process. In this case you will also find that it is mainly through this way of recording that will lead to a certain degree of difference in the process.