Characteristics of Chaozhou Music

Chaozhou music has the following characteristics:

Chaozhou music, referred to as Chaozhou music for short, is one of the national intangible cultural heritages, which mainly spreads in Chaoshan area of Guangdong Province.

Chaozhou music is famous at home and abroad for its flexible and changeable performance forms. Known as "the legacy of Tang and Song Dynasties" and "the voice of China", it is a treasure in China folk music.

Chaozhou music can be roughly divided into gongs and drums, string poems, fine music, temple fair music and Waijiang music. Among them, gongs and drums belong to folk music, including Chaozhou big gongs and drums, Chaozhou small gongs and drums and Chaozhou Su gongs and drums. String music, fine music, temple fair music and Waijiang music belong to chamber music. There are about 20 kinds of instruments commonly used in Chaozhou music, among which Erxian, Suona and Deep Wave are the most local features. .

On May 20th, 2006, Chaozhou Music was approved by the State Council to be included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list, numbered Ⅱ-50? . At the end of the Southern Song Dynasty, Wu Bing, a court music official in the Song Dynasty (word Ru Guang, originally from Jiangxi) arrived in the tide with his teacher.

After the death of the Song Dynasty, Wu Bing settled in Chaoyang Cotton City, so the seeds of court music were sown on the land of Chaoyang. After the enrichment and development of musicians in past dynasties, Chaoyang flute suite has formed a simple and elegant style and strong local characteristics.

Since the Ming and Qing Dynasties, foreign (provincial) operas have poured in, and commercial performances are very frequent, which has injected new blood into Chaozhou opera. 1843, Chaozhou music went south to Singapore with the influx of population. In the early 1950s, Shantou Chaole Improvement Association and Chaozhou Folk Music Troupe were established.

In 2002, China Conservatory of Music introduced Chaozhou music into their classrooms, and designated 2002 as Chaozhou Music Year of China Conservatory of Music, so that students could learn this kind of music in this year? .