The emergence and growth of new wave music after the reform and opening up can be divided into three steps. The first is the exploration of modern music by musicians scattered across the country, which is the surge of modern music; the second is the 1982 The "Concert of Works" by fourth-year students of the Composition Department of the Central Conservatory of Music was the first wave of collective modern music; the third was the "Concert of Tan Dun's National Instrumental Works" held at the Central Conservatory of Music in April 1985 and the "Concert of Tan Dun's National Instrumental Works" held in Wuhan in December of the same year. The "Young Composers New Works Exchange Meeting" is a major trend in modern music.