"Traditional Chinese music" refers to music created by the Chinese using their own nation's inherent methods and forms, and with the nation's inherent morphological characteristics.

Chinese traditional music consists of folk music, literati music, religious music and court 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;

Religion Music includes Buddhist music, Taoist music, Christian music, Islamic music, shamanism and other religious music; palace music includes sacrificial music, court music, guide and tour music, and banquet music.

Extended information:

The division of traditional music was first seen in the "Introduction to National Music" compiled by the China Music Research Institute, which 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, ethnic 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; while "folk music" is just traditional music A category of music. Moreover, our country’s national music is very rich. In addition to folk music, it also includes court music, religious music and literati music.

Baidu Encyclopedia—Chinese Traditional Music