In ancient China, there was a kind of music called Jiangnan Sizhu. Why? What are the famous songs?

A traditional China instrumental music, Sizhu Music, is popular in southern Jiangsu and Zhejiang. Instrumental music in this area is mainly stringed instruments and bamboo wind instruments, so it is called silk and bamboo music, which was popular among the people at least before the Qing Dynasty 1860. After the Revolution of 1911, it made great progress in Shanghai, and successively established Tian Jun Collection, Qingping Collection, Yage Collection, National Music Research Association and other institutions. There are eight songs that are often played, such as Ode to Joy, Say the Clear Clouds, Walking in the Street, Four in One, Three Six, slow three Six, Six Banners in China and Slow Six, which are called "Eight Famous Songs". In addition, Old Liu Ban, Fast Liu Ban, Nishang Qu, Liu Qingniang, Gefei, Gaoshan, flowing water and overlapping buildings are also very popular.

There are two main types of musical structure of Jiangnan Sizhu: plate-type change and Qupai combination, among which plate-type change technique is the most distinctive. The melody 1 is often used as the mother song, and it develops into several independent pieces of music by slowing down the addition of flowers or speeding up the reduction of words.