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Folk music refers to music works created collectively by ordinary people, which truly reflect their life scenes and vividly express their emotional wishes. It is characterized by the collectivity of the creative process, the oral communication mode and the variability of music tunes (including regional variability, internal brilliance variability, aesthetic variability, improvisation and contingency variability).

China has a long history of national instrumental music. From the Western Zhou Dynasty to the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, blowing sheng, hammering, drumming, percussion and playing the piano were popular among the people. At that time, Qin musicians such as Shi Juanhe appeared, as well as the famous piano music "Mountain" and "Running Water". Percussion music in Qin and Han dynasties, commercial music in Wei and Jin dynasties, pipa music in Sui and Tang dynasties, fine music and pure music in Song dynasty, top ten gongs and drums and strings in Yuan and Ming dynasties, etc. , there are various forms of performance. Modern genres and forms are the inheritance and development of traditional forms.

National instrumental music includes solos and ensembles of various instruments and ensembles of different instrument combinations. Different instrument combinations, different tracks and different playing styles have formed a variety of instrumental music. The solo music of various musical instruments is an important part of national instrumental music. There are many kinds of percussion music, and stringed instruments are used in the band, so the music has the characteristics of silk and bamboo music. Generally speaking, percussion music popular in the north emphasizes "blowing" and has high playing skills; The popular percussion music in the south emphasizes "beating", and gongs and drums play an important role in percussion music.

Traditional national instrumental performances are mostly combined with folk customs such as weddings, funerals and celebrations, court ceremonies and religious ceremonies, and rarely take the form of pure instrumental performances. The practicality of national instrumental music makes many instrumental music tracks change because of different occasions.

Traditional national instrumental music has a title, which is divided into two categories: standard name and standard meaning. The nominal title of the song is just a name for the music to show the difference between A and B, and it has nothing to do with the content of the music. Symbol titles use song titles, section titles, and problem-solving tips for music content.

Folk instrumental music is divided into "solo" and "suite" according to traditional habits. Singles are mostly singles and independent tunes. The divertimento consists of several tunes or independent paragraphs. For example, North-South school pipa Daqu 13 sets and Northern Shaanxi school 8 sets. According to the types of music structure, there are mainly variations, loops, antithesis and polyphony, among which variations and antithesis are the most common.

Various variation techniques are widely used in creation. Folk artists are good at using various playing techniques to modify the melody and form variations when playing a song repeatedly. "Slowly adding flowers" is also a common variation technique, which multiplies the structure of the "mother song" and makes it decorated with flowers. In all the music, the paragraph "Slow down and add some flowers" comes before the "mother song". Another variation technique is to change the structure of theme, which expands and contracts at the beginning, middle or end of a sentence in the next five variations. This structural change is common in gongs and drums.

Since the 1920s, Liu Tianhua and Nie Er have done some work on the inheritance and development of national instrumental music. Since the founding of New China, musicians have been sorting out, processing and adapting various excellent traditional songs, which has improved the original spirit of music and produced a large number of new works. In the aspect of musical instrument reform, great progress has been made in unifying melody, improving sound quality, expanding volume, facilitating modulation and increasing bass. New varieties such as large-scale national orchestra ensemble have been produced, and new development has been made in content and form.

China traditional music is a concept that only appeared in modern times. Before 1840, the so-called China music refers to the traditional music in China. Since the Opium War, western learning has spread to the east. Under the influence of western music culture, many people in China, after learning the technology and basic theory of western music, borrowed or created music according to this technology and theory, which is different from ancient music in China in all aspects. As a result, the meaning of the word "China Music" has changed fundamentally. In modern Chinese, "China Music" not only refers to the music handed down from ancient times, but also refers to the music created and adapted by China people according to western music theory. In order to distinguish the music as the quintessence of China from the new works created under the influence of the West, from the 1920s to 1930s, people used "national music" to refer to the music inherited from ancient times and developed in modern times, while "new music" was used to refer to the music created by people who had studied western music. Mr. Chen Hong pointed out in the article "The Definition of China Music" that "in the era of closed doors, music is music, and there is no difference between China and the West; When the sea was closed, it was only when "Western Music" came that someone gave it a title called "China Music" to distinguish it from "Western Music". It is the same as using Chinese, Chinese painting, Chinese medicine and other nouns to distinguish it from western, western painting and western medicine ... So, Chinese language, Chinese painting, Chinese medicine and China Wushu appeared one after another, and China music was changed to China music. It can be seen that the traditional music in China is a concept relative to the new music in China, and it is complementary to the new music.