{"id":18103,"date":"2020-02-13T01:05:31","date_gmt":"2020-02-13T01:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/chinese-culture\/chinese-culture-a-brief-history-of-chinese-music-2\/"},"modified":"2020-02-13T01:05:31","modified_gmt":"2020-02-13T01:05:31","slug":"chinese-culture-a-brief-history-of-chinese-music-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/vi\/chinese-culture-a-brief-history-of-chinese-music-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Culture: A Brief History of Chinese Music"},"content":{"rendered":"

\tChinese music interwove with dances in its early time, and developed into an independent art category in Xia Dynasty <\/strong>(\u590f\u671d xiàcháo) which is also the beginning of the times of bells and drums lasting for 1300 years.<\/p>\n

\tThe enjoyment of music is the privilege of upper class at that time, and the content is generally the praises for the conqueror of the nature, the nobles and the governor. Let's know more about the history of Chinese music.<\/p>\n

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\tPercussion instrument emerged in Shang Dynasty <\/strong>(\u5546\u671d sh\u0101ngcháo), for example, the Bianzhong (a set of hanging bronze bells for polyphonic musical sounds). And in Zhou Dynasty <\/strong>(\u5468\u671d zh\u014ducháo), a complete ritual music system was established.<\/p>\n

\tGrand songs and dances or Daqu in Chinese is the main style of music from Qin Dynasty <\/strong>(\u79e6\u671d qíncháo) to Tang Dynasty <\/strong>(\u5510\u671d tángcháo).<\/p>\n

\tIn Qin and Han dynasties, it was the time for Yuefu Songs (folk songs collected by government) and Xianghe songs (a lead singer with harmony singers accompanied by some string and wind instruments).<\/p>\n

\tIn Tang Dynasty, many music education institutions were established officially and grand songs and dances came to its prosperous day, of which the “song of rainbow skirts and feather robes”<\/strong> (\u9713\u88f3\u7fbd\u8863\u66f2ní shang y\u01d4 y\u012b q\u01d4) was the most famous one created by Emperor Xuanzong (712 – 756) of Tang Dynasty; And Pipa<\/strong> (\u7435\u7436 pípá)is the most important instruments at that time. It is also the same period that music is not just enjoyed in palaces by nobles, and civilian music enjoyment emerged in temple fairs and restaurants.<\/p>\n

\tIt is in Song Dynasty <\/strong>(\u5b8b\u671d sòngcháo) that small-scale music of civilians in public amenities was completely developed and the mature traditional Chinese opera started. There were kinds of music performances at that time, and many instruments were well-developed such as Pipa, Zheng, flutes and Xiao.<\/p>\n

\tIn Yuan Dynasty <\/strong>(\u5143\u671d yuáncháo), Sanxuan emerged and Chinese opera was prosperous with great artists and works, and some of the works still performing today, such as the Romance of Western Chamber <\/strong>(\u897f\u53a2\u8bb0 x\u012bxi\u0101ngjì).<\/p>\n

\tRegional narrative songs and ethnic music were developed quickly in Qing Dynasty <\/strong>(\u6e05\u671d q\u012bngcháo) and kinds of instruments were played together in a group. In the late of Qing Dynasty and modern time, western music was introduced into China and made a great influence to Chinese modern music.<\/p>\n

\tI like Chinese music, and you?<\/p>\n