In the Zhou Dynasty, the government set up a music organization headed by "Dasi Music". Teach music, music, music and dance. The so-called virtue is the ethical concept of "neutralization, mediocrity and filial piety";

In 221 BC, Ying Zheng unified the six countries and set up Yuefu, an official department dedicated to managing music.

Liu Bang established the regime of the Western Han Dynasty, which expanded the organization and functions of Yuefu. He not only attached importance to folk music, but also absorbed the music of remote ethnic groups such as the Western Regions and Beidi.

During the Han and Wei Dynasties, the court introduced many folk songs and dances and hundreds of operas.

During the Jin Dynasty and the Southern and Northern Dynasties, the music culture of foreign countries and outlands had extensive exchanges with the music culture of the Central Plains, which became an important period in the history of music.

Social stability and economic prosperity in the Sui and Tang Dynasties created favorable conditions for the development of music art. The rulers of the Tang Dynasty widely absorbed foreign music culture, which made music reach a peak of development. Among the famous songs in which poetry is sung, the integration of literature and music has become a feature of the development of Chinese classical music. Guan Shanyue by Li Bai, Qingming by Du Fu, Zhuzhi Song by Liu Yuxi, Liangzhou Ci by Wang Zhihuan, etc. Some of them have been circulated among the people for a long time as folk songs, while others have been absorbed by the Qin family and preserved in the form of Qin songs.

The Song Dynasty was the golden age of Ci-style song creation, with the gradual prosperity of urban economy, the expansion of the civic class and the shift of social music activities from the palace to the secular. There have been "Goulan" and "Youpeng" venues for citizens' music activities in the Northern Song Dynasty, and tonal music, rap music and opera music suitable for citizens and literati have developed particularly rapidly.

during the Ming and Qing dynasties, with the outstanding development of industry and commodity economy, citizen music gradually became the main component of music art. Self-entertaining folk songs, folk song and dance music, as well as commercial rap and opera music, all achieved unprecedented artistic achievements in history during this period, and the development of Peking Opera Quyi also presented a brilliant historical stage.