The difference between Guangdong music and Chaozhou music:

Although Guangdong music and Chaozhou music are both from the Guangdong region, they have different music types, music structure characteristics, and melody and style characteristics. . Teochew music is obviously much older than Cantonese music. The Chaoshan area is located on the southeastern coast of my country, which brought the Central Plains culture to the Chaoshan area.

For example, later the Southern Song Dynasty moved its capital to Lin'an (today's Hangzhou) and other Chaoshan area music also had an impact. Among the state's large gongs and drums, there are many cases where the scene music on the opera stage is completely preserved in the form of percussion. It is in the string poetry music. Most of them still retain the original characteristics of Yanle in the Sui and Tang Dynasties. Furthermore, it belongs to the category of Min dialect.

So they are all relics of Yanle in the Sui and Tang Dynasties. However, the formation of Guangdong music came much later. In the "Collection of Chinese Guangdong Music Gao Hu Famous Songs" published in the Shanghai Music Publishing House, Jiefang was also the first person with documented history to introduce music from other provinces to Guangdong. In addition, it is clear evidence that Qingdan Pipa has been popular in Guangdong since the Ming Dynasty.

In early Guangdong music, the He family contributed especially to pipa performance and pipa arrangements, which became the mainstream of Guangdong music at that time. Moreover, the formation of traditional Guangdong music repertoire is also different from Chaozhou music, which has a great influence.