Introduction to traditional Chinese music: We can see the word "national music" in many folk music CDs. This "national music" refers to music that has been handed down from ancient times and developed in modern times. The "quintessence of Chinese culture" music shows that the creation time of "Chinese music" refers to ancient times;

"New music"

" refers to those written by those who have studied Western music Music, such as school music, shows that the new music was created after the Opium War in 1840.

"Chinese music"

refers not only to music passed down from ancient times, but also to music passed down from ancient times. Music created and adapted by Chinese people based on Western theories

"Traditional Chinese music

" refers to the music created by the Chinese using their own nation's inherent methods and their own nation's inherent forms. Music with inherent national morphological characteristics includes not only ancient works produced in history and handed down to this day, but also contemporary works. It can be seen that traditional music includes "national music" but does not include "new music", but they are all "Chinese music". .

Traditional music is an extremely important part of my country’s national music. The difference between traditional music and new music does not lie in the time of creation, but in its form of expression and style characteristics. Although the songs "Moon Reflected on Two Springs" and "Fishing Boats Sing Evening" are modern music works, their performance forms are unique to the Chinese nation, so they are also traditional music. On the contrary, school songs and piano solo "Shepherd Boy Piccolo" are known for their music. The morphological characteristics are borrowed from Western music, so it is not traditional music.

The classification of traditional music was first seen in the "Introduction to National Music" compiled by the China Music Research Institute, and is divided into five categories: songs, song and dance music, rap music, Opera and instrumental music, but most colleges incorporate song and dance music into folk songs in their teaching, so it becomes four major categories: folk songs, national instrumental music, folk art (i.e. "rap") music, and opera music.

In fact, "ethnic music", "traditional music" and "folk music" are three different concepts: "ethnic music" includes traditional music and new music; and "folk music" is only a category of traditional music in our country. The national music of my country is very rich. In addition to folk music, it also includes court music, religious music and literati music.

Mr. Du Yaxiong classified Chinese traditional music as follows: folk music, literati music, religious music and court music. Music; folk music includes folk songs, folk instrumental music, folk songs and dances, opera music and rap music; literati music includes guqin music, poetry recitation tunes, and literati self-made music; religious music includes Buddhist music, Taoist music, Christian music, and Islamic music. Qilan music, shamanism and other religious music; palace music includes sacrificial music, court music, guide and tour music, and banquet music.