The silk and bamboo music popular in Guangdong is mainly played by Yuehu, Yangqin and Qinqin.
Cantonese music, also known as Cantonese music, was originally popular in the Pearl River Delta area. Its predecessor was mainly Cantonese opera transition music and ditties used to highlight performances. Around the early 20th century, it developed into independent instrumental music. After spreading to other places, it was called Cantonese music.
The 1920s and 1930s were the prosperous period of Guangdong music, with the emergence of many professional composers and performers, such as He Liutang, Lu Wencheng, Yi Jianquan, Yin Zizhong, etc. Around 1926, influenced by the silk and bamboo from the south of the Yangtze River, Lu Wencheng introduced the erhu to Hong Kong and Macao, switched to steel strings, moved the strings higher and tuned them, and created the Cantonese hu (also known as Gaohu) with a crisp and bright sound. Later, he added dulcimer, dulcimer, Qin Qin, with Gaohu as the main instrument, is a "three-piece head", also known as "soft bow". Extended information
At the beginning of the 19th century, the Hangjiahu area in northern Zhejiang, the birthplace, spread and birthplace of Jiangnan silk and bamboo music, was already very active and developed to a large scale during the Daoguang period of the Qing Dynasty (1821). There is a record in "Jiaxing Prefecture Chronicles" of "picking silk from Suzhou and Hangzhou, cutting beautiful bamboos in Dongting, transforming the good news of Wu and Yue, collecting the essence of strings and strings, and there are silk and bamboos in the south of the Yangtze River".
At that time, Pinghu's "Heji Qingyin Society" and Jiaxing's "Jinshengzou" had been passed down for generations. Pinghu Pipa master Li Fangyuan is the fifth generation inheritor of the Li family. The fifth generation of the Li family is not only a pipa player, but also a master of unvoiced music.