Chinese ethnic minority music is an inseparable and important part of the entire Chinese national music culture. The 56 ethnic minorities in our country are all good at singing and dancing, and they all have excellent and unique music created and passed down by their own ethnic groups, which shows the value of their own existence. As early as about five thousand years ago, the Chinese music culture, which was formed by the Yellow River, the Yangtze River and other large river basins, showed a trend of diverse origins and mixed development, constantly absorbing the essence of the music of surrounding ethnic minorities. At the same time, it continues to penetrate and integrate with the music culture of ethnic minorities, gradually forming a rich and colorful Chinese national music.

Each ethnic minority in my country has its own development history and cultural background. The music culture of each ethnic group formed on this basis has a wide variety of music genres. Like the Han people, the music of various ethnic minorities can be divided into folk songs, folk instrumental music, folk singing and dancing, folk rap art, and folk opera music in terms of performance forms.

Folk songs are art forms used by ethnic minorities to express their thoughts, feelings, will and wishes. Many ethnic minority areas are known as the "Sea of ??Songs" and the Hometown of Music. Singing accompanies their labor production, social interaction, entertainment and other activities. They sing when grazing and engaged in agricultural production, at weddings or funerals, when talking about love, and when they miss their homeland. Many ethnic groups have singing festivals, such as the songs of the Zhuang people, the Hua'er Festival of the Hui and Salar people, the Dragon Boat Festival and Rao Sanling of the Miao people, the antiphonal songs of the Dong people's Mulberry Picking Festival, the Eagle Po Song Festival of the Buyi people, and the hot spring water festival of the Buyi people. Biansai Song Festival, Yao people’s singing hall, Yi people’s Torch Festival, etc. Love songs account for a large proportion of ethnic minority folk songs, and beautiful and melodious songs can be heard in grasslands, mountains, forests, or under the moonlight, by fire pits, or in public houses (houses for young men and women to socialize).

Each ethnic minority group has a certain number of folk instruments and music. According to incomplete statistics, there are more than 500 types of musical instruments of various shapes, including stringed instruments, wind instruments, strumming instruments, and percussion instruments, with rich and diverse performance capabilities. Folk music of all ethnic groups contains solos and ensembles. Ensemble music is divided into wind music, string music, plucked music, gong and drum music, as well as silk and bamboo music, wind and percussion music, string music, etc. The music types of ethnic minorities are also quite distinctive and representative, such as Mukam and Nagra of the Uyghurs, Daliuzi of the Tujia people, Dongjing music of the Bai people, Baisha Xiyue of the Naxi people, Wenbang Mukuan of the Jingpo people, etc. The reed music and bronze drum music of the Miao, Zhuang, Yi, Dong, Yao and other ethnic groups also have unique styles.

Folk singing and dancing is an art form that organically combines ethnic minority music and dance. The most distinctive types include drumming, dancing and tapping. One is for encouragement, which uses percussion accompaniment and dances in time. It mainly uses drums as accompaniment instruments, using unique rhythm and timbre changes to match the dance postures. For example, the Zhuang ethnic group’s Bee Drum Dance and Bipolar Dance, the Wa ethnic group’s Wooden Drum Dance, the Korean ethnic group’s Changdeng Dance, and the Miao, Yao, Yi, Shui, and Li ethnic groups’ Bronze Drum Dance, etc. The second is dance music, which is a kind of dance completely accompanied by musical instruments, such as the black horse swing dance and swan dance of the Kazakh people, the Beren dance of the Xibe people, the Lusheng dance, the Gourdsheng dance, the Yueqin dance, and the Sanxian dance of various ethnic minorities in the southwest. Dance etc. The third is step singing, which means dancing and dancing in the sound of songs and music. It is a form of singing and dancing, or alternating between singing and dancing, with singing and dancing. The Andai of the Mongolian people, the Laipel and Sainaim of the Uyghur people, the tea-picking dance of the Zhuang people, the biography of King Gesar of the Tibetan people, the Jiasu of the Yi people, the Dabenqu of the Bai people, the Pipa songs of the Dong people, and the Mo Lun of the Zhuang people. wait.

Folk opera music is an art form of ethnic minorities that combines folk songs, singing and dancing, instrumental music and rap. Many ethnic minorities in my country have their own operas and music, such as Tibetan opera, Bai opera, Zhuang opera, Manhan opera (Mongolian opera), Dong opera, Yi opera, Miao opera, Buyi opera, Mao Nan opera, Dai opera, singing opera, etc. Opera (Korean), Xincheng Opera (Manchu), etc.

Such a rich and colorful variety of songs, music, and dramas from ethnic minorities constitute the glorious music culture of my country’s ethnic minorities and occupy a prominent position in the history of Chinese national music.

We firmly believe that with the advancement of the times, ethnic minority music will continue to create and develop, and the long-standing Chinese ethnic minority music art will be further developed in the years to come.