The Difference Between Tibetan Music and Mongolian Music

Chinese folk music in a narrow sense refers to Han Chinese music, or "folk music" for short. China's ethnic minority music, however, has more styles and contents, such as Tibetan music, Mongolian music, Zhuang music, etc.

Russian music

There are two types of music in China: Tibetan music and Mongolian music.

Russian music

Russian music has a beautiful melody, which has a great influence on Chinese music, such as the song "A Night Outside Moscow", "The Three Sets of Cars", "The Hawthorn Tree" and so on.

Tibetan music

Tibetans are a people who can sing and dance well, and their songs have beautiful and vast melodies. Tibetan music can be broadly divided into Buddhist music and folk music. The most famous of the Buddhist music is the wordless chanting tunes sung by lamas.

Tibetan folk songs are loud and clear, sounds like a plateau blue sky vast weather, melodious, but also to the five main. Songs and dances are in the form of "Guo Harmony" and "Guo Zhuo" (pots and pans), etc. Some elements of Tibetan music have been adopted by the Chinese. Some elements of Tibetan music have been absorbed by Han Chinese and Western music. Some Han Chinese songwriters have imitated the characteristics of Tibetan music to create songs such as "Strolling in the New Town" and "Tibetan Plateau". In recent years, Tibetan songs in Tibet have also incorporated elements of other music. Famous Tibetan singers include Tsetan Drolma and Han Hongwai, who mainly sings Chinese songs, as well as a large number of singers who are well known in Tibet, such as Rongzhong Erjia, Yadong, and Qiongxue Drolma.

For formal theater, the traditional Tibetan opera "King Gesar" has now been excavated and performed.

Manchu music

China's northeast and Beijing are home to the Manchu. The most famous Manchu folk instrument is the octagonal drum, which originated in the Qing Dynasty. Works such as the Manchu lullaby "Yoyoza" are famous and are often covered in modern Chinese.

Mongolian Music

Mongolian folk songs are divided into "long-toned folk songs" and "short-toned folk songs". The "long tune" has many meaningless harmonic words and long singing voice, with the style of the grassland. The most characteristic musical instrument is the horse head qin, is a stringed instrument, because the column is generally carved on a horse head decoration, so it is named.