Is rock music part of Chinese folk music?

Chinese Rock (中国摇滚) refers to independently developed rock music in mainland China, where rock music first appeared as an independent music genre in the 1980s. Typically, Chinese rock has been described as an anti-traditional instrument, a music that rebels against mainstream ideology, the commercial establishment, and cultural hegemony.

China's first rock band, Wan Li Ma Wang, appeared in 1980, "All for Nothing" was first published as a rock song in 1986, and 1989's "Rock on the Road to a New Long March" marked the beginning of China's rock recording history. Rock took root in China's "counterculture". It became popular culture in its own right, leading to the emergence of "modern rock" in the 1990s.

In the early 1990s, rock music reached its peak of popularity in mainland China with the Tang Dynasty and the Three Stooges, and after the mid-1990s, it had grown to at least a thousand bands. However, due to a variety of objective reasons, China's rock music has been in an underground development since then.