Differences and connections between national music and folk music

"National music" and "folk music" are two different concepts, but they are closely related and different.

National music, broadly speaking, includes traditional music and new music. So folk music is a part of national music, that is, folk music belongs to national music. Besides folk music, folk music also includes court music, religious music and literati music. These music types constitute the rich diversity of China national music.

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