Development Trend of Ethnic Music

Over the past 50 years since the founding of New China, a number of high-level folk music groups have been established in China, and a large number of conductors and composers like Peng Xiowen, and outstanding instrumentalists like Liu Mingyuan (Banhu), Liu Dehai (Pipa), and Min Huifen (Erhu), as well as a number of young and middle-aged talents in this field, have emerged in the folk music field. Together with the majority of folk music workers, they have made great contributions to the revitalization of folk music, the development of folk music, and the enrichment of the treasury of folk music.

China's folk music workers, through the discovery, organization and processing of folk music, a number of folk music works radiate a dazzling artistic brilliance, and become the classic works loved by the masses. For example, "High Mountains and Flowing Water", "Night of the Spring River and the Moon", "Reflecting the Moon in the Two Springs", "Ambush on Ten Sides", "Hundred Birds Toward the Phoenix" and so on. China's folk music creation has made a valuable and useful exploration in borrowing western music and enriching the forms of expression, and has achieved success. The breadth and depth of our theoretical research on folk music have reached the highest level in history, with a large number of extensive and in-depth collections of folk music, as well as a number of research papers and monographs of high academic standards, which have had a great impact on research at home and abroad. The technical innovation of folk instruments has also achieved remarkable results, expanding the scope of expression and range, and enriching the sound quality and timbre. Performance techniques have also made breakthroughs and progress, greatly expanding and enriching the orchestra's expressive capabilities. The state has adopted the policy of "blossoming" in the fields of music education and music creation, encouraging the creation of a number of contemporary, artistic and national works: the large-scale dance epic "The East is Red", the movie music work "Liu Sanjie", the opera "Red Guard of the Honghu Lake", the piano piece "The Yellow River", and the violin concerto "Liang Zhuhu", etc. The reforms have also led to the development of a new music style, which has been widely used in the music industry, such as "The Yellow River" and "The Blessing of Liang".

After the reform and opening up of China, the development of Chinese music was even more rapid, with music education institutions and music organizations springing up, Chinese people winning awards in international music competitions, and musical talents coming out of the woodwork. Music creation has become more prosperous, and the forms of musical expression have become richer. Folk songs, orchestral music, symphonies, operas, dance dramas, musicals, popular music and all kinds of new wave music have flourished, greatly enriching the treasure trove of national music and the cultural life of the people.

In short, over the past 50 years since the founding of New China, the history of China's national music development should be said to have made a qualitative leap. Today, we not only need to strengthen the education of folk music, but more importantly, to improve the folk music literacy of the youth generation, through learning to make them systematically recognize the folk music genres of China's multi-ethnicity, to understand the basic theories and knowledge in folk music, and to familiarize themselves with the representative repertoire of various styles of folk music. From sensibility to rationality, they will master the classics of ethnic and folk music in a more comprehensive way. China's outstanding ethnic and folk music has its own unique social functions and aesthetic value, through the study and appreciation of which, students will be more in love with China's profound traditional music and culture, in order to enhance the sense of national self-improvement and cultivate patriotism. This has a deeper meaning for the inheritance and promotion of the excellent culture of the Chinese nation.