The bamboo and silk in the south of the Yangtze River is one of the most representative local "musical species" of national instrumental music. Silk and bamboo in the south of the Yangtze River is popular in Shanghai, including traditional music in southern Jiangsu and western Zhejiang, which is one of the national intangible cultural heritages.

The tunes of the silk and bamboo in the south of the Yangtze River are beautiful and simple, fresh and pleasing to the ear, light and clear, beautiful and elegant, with colorful techniques and endless changes. It pays attention to the artistic style of "you are complex and simple, you are high and low, add flowers and variations, make way by blocking, and improvise", showing "small, fine, light and elegant". There are rich repertoire of silk and bamboo in the south of the Yangtze River, and the traditional music mainly includes Six Plates in Chinese Flowers, Sanliu, Walking in the Street, Sihe and Yunqing.

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Jiangnan silk and bamboo is an outstanding representative of the music culture of Jiangnan water town. Its playing techniques and music style are implicit, which contains profound cultural connotation of pursuing modesty and harmony, and is of great practical and theoretical research value in the history of national music, opera and folk customs. In the 196s and 197s, influenced by the current situation, the traditional Jiangnan Silk and Bamboo Clubs mostly dissolved themselves.

nowadays, the old silk and bamboo artists have passed away one after another, and the traditional music is rarely transmitted. Therefore, the inheritance of silk and bamboo in the south of the Yangtze River is in deep crisis and its future is in danger, which needs to be protected urgently.

China Intangible Cultural Heritage Network-Jiangnan Sizhu