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What is an ancient song?

Antique songs are a type of music based on classical music and combined with modern pop elements. It expresses deep feelings with ancient tunes, which makes people feel a kind of deep thoughts and feelings during listening.

Antique song is a kind of song with the characteristics of China ancient culture, and its lyrics and melody are deeply influenced by China traditional culture. This kind of songs usually contain ancient poems, allusions and other contents, combined with modern music elements to create. Broadly speaking, ancient style refers to a style with beautiful and dreamy melody, with traditional musical instruments (especially flute, guzheng guqin, dulcimer, combined with western musical instruments, piano and violin) to pursue classical and elegant artistic conception, or ethereal and distant.

In a narrow sense, archaism refers to music played by traditional musical instruments, and the harmony texture is composed of piano on the basis of five tones. Lyrics pursue the style of classical poetry, and parallel prose is combined with prose, which mainly inherits the traditional culture of Han and Tang Dynasties. In addition to the profound understanding and extensive application of traditional musical instruments, ancient songs also pursue the traditional classical charm, with beautiful and gorgeous lyrics, which reflect rich literary interest.

Antique songs recommended:

1, "Wind": This song is sung by two senior singers, He Tu and Rachel. This song borrows the words "not the wind, not the movement, but the heart of the benevolent" from the altar sutra, which can be said to be full of artistic conception and the melody is quite brainwashing. Every lyric can be sung to my heart. Sure enough, I heard a good song a few years ago and repeated it a few years later, because it was a beautiful voice in my memory.

2. Rain outside the apricot blossom: A friend told me after listening to this song "Rain outside the apricot blossom" that "once the ancient style is infected, it is easy to stop talking". I think once I like it, I can't stop. Before it's too late, just introduce this song to everyone. This song was sung by Kerity and Si Xia. It mainly describes Jiangnan: ancient towns, small bridges, flowing water, people, talented people, beautiful women and apricot blossoms. As for the song itself, it is healing and fresh, the melody is in the ear and the lyrics are in the heart.