China's national music has a wide range, and the music created by 56 nationalities in China from ancient times to the present can be counted as China's national music.
According to the social class, China traditional music can be divided into four categories:
1. Folk music
2. Literati music
3. Palace music
4. Religious music
According to the artistic characteristics of its genre, China folk music can be divided into:
1. Folk songs
2. Folk dance music
3. Rap music
4. Opera music
5. Folk instrumental music
Some folk songs and ballads that we are familiar with now actually belong to the category of folk music.
folk song
1. Han folk songs
Boat songs: loading and unloading boat songs, engineering boat songs, boat songs, fishing boat songs, etc. Folk songs: general folk songs, herding folk songs, Tian Yang folk songs, etc. Minor: chant, ballad, tune, etc.
2. Minority folk songs
According to social functions, it can be divided into hunting songs, pastoral songs and folk songs. Lyrics are divided into love songs, labor songs, wedding songs and so on. According to the musical form of the song, it can be divided into long tune and short tune.
Folk dance music
1. Dance music
Seasonal category, ballad category, intonation category, children's songs category, multi-voice category, drama category.
Step 2 dance music
Percussion, wind pipe music, plucked music, strings, and ensemble percussion, strings and bands.
Rap music
1. According to the artistic style
Crosstalk, storytelling, Allegro, drum music.
2. According to the main musical instruments and historical origins
Guci, Tanci, Daoqing, brand, piano book.
3. According to the structural form
Monomer, Qupai body, plate cavity, main insert body.
Local opera music
By region
Nationwide: Kunqu Opera and Peking Opera. North China and Northeast China: Hebei Bangzi, Henan Bangzi, Henan Quju Biography, Shandong Opera, Yuediao, etc. Northwest: Shaanxi Opera, Errentai, Shanxi Middle Road Bangzi, etc. Jiangnan area: Yue Opera, Shanghai Opera, Shaoshua, Jiangxi Brush, etc. Jianghuai area: Huangmei Opera, Lushui Sizhou Opera and Huizhou Opera. Hunan and Hubei areas: Han brush, Chu brush, Xiang brush, Qi brush, and flower drum drama in various places. Southwest China: Sichuan Opera, Yunnan Opera, etc.
According to the classification of sound cavity
Four major acoustic cavity systems: Kunqu Opera, Gaoqu Opera, Bangzi Opera and Pi Huangqiang Opera.
There are three types of cavity: folk song and dance cavity, folk rap music cavity and minority opera cavity.
Folk instrumental music
Solo music
There are three types: wind music, string music and plucked music.
all
There are four categories: string Suo Le, bamboo and percussion.