What is traditional music?

"China traditional music" refers to the music with its own characteristics created by the people of China in their own ways and forms.

It includes both ancient works produced in history and handed down to this day, as well as contemporary works. It can be seen that traditional music includes "national music" but not "new music", but they are all "China music".

Traditional music is an extremely important part of China national music. The difference between traditional music and new music lies not in the order of music creation, but in its expression form and style characteristics.

For example, Erhu solo "Two Springs Reflecting the Moon" and "Fishing Boat Singing Night" are modern music works, but their playing forms are inherent in the Chinese nation, so they are also traditional music. On the contrary, the school song and piano solo "Shepherd Boy Piccolo" are not traditional music because they borrow the musical morphological characteristics of western music.