The oldest music in China.

The earliest existing music score in China is the ancient piano score "Stone Tunes the Orchid".

According to the Preface, You Lan was passed on by Qiu Ming (493-590) in the Six Dynasties. In fact, it is a text with 4954 Chinese characters, which records in detail which string each sound belongs to, where it is and how to play it on the guqin. From the development of character spectrum to the use of pictographic strokes in Chinese characters and the combination of symbols, it is based on the notation produced by musical instruments (for example, the middle finger of the right hand hooks the first string and the middle finger of the left hand presses a string of seven characters). Cao Rou, a person in the Tang Dynasty, initiated this method, and Chen Kangshi and Chen Zhuo compiled a large number of musical scores in the late Tang Dynasty. Since the Song and Yuan Dynasties, it has been further improved by a few musicians. Guqin music, the treasure of China traditional music, can be preserved up to now, mainly thanks to subtraction notation.

The Orchid is the only piano music preserved by the original notation so far. According to today's guqin artist & gt Notes of the Tang Dynasty, the photocopying paper was excavated, and the original was kept in the Shen Guang Research Institute of Xihemao, Kyoto, Japan, which provided extremely precious materials for studying the music of China before the Tang Dynasty, and it is the oldest piano score in the world.