Buddhist monastery rap music is of what

Buddhist monastery rap music belongs to the variant texts.

There is a kind of rap music, which is set up by the Buddhist monasteries to publicize the teachings, with the form of saying and singing, the Buddhist scriptures or teachings, and in the Sui and Tang dynasties have great influence, this kind of rap music is a change of text. Changwen is an ancient genre of rap literature, emerged in the Tang Dynasty.

It is the literary tradition of inheriting the poems and novels of the six dynasties of Han, Wei and Wei, and it is also a mature genre developed under the direct influence of the so-called "singing guide" of the Buddhist monks, which has the characteristics of intermingling of rap and singing, combination of rhyme and white, common language, narrative twists and turns, vivid descriptions, and rich imaginations, etc., and the representative works are "Demon Subduing Variant", "Wu Zixu Variant", and so on.

Buddhist music

Buddhist music (Zuoyun Lanyan Temple Buddhist music) is an intangible cultural heritage program of traditional music declared by the Zuoyun County Cultural Hall in Zuoyun County, Datong City, Shanxi Province, China, and certified in 2009. The temple music of Lanyan Temple in Zuoyun County is circulated in the area of Zuoyun and Liangcheng County in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, and originally belonged to the East Road genre of the chanting voice in northern China.

Accompanied by the monks' chanting and Buddhist activities, it was produced and sung in the early Ming Dynasty, and enriched and developed in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. And in the long process of circulation, it also absorbed elements of Buddhist music such as Tianzhu music, Guzi music, Anguo music, and combined with local folk music, gradually formed a kind of temple music with Mongolian and Chinese characteristics and exotic flavor.