Quanzhou is known as the living fossil in the history of China music.

Quanzhou is known as Nanyin, a living fossil in the music history of China.

Nanyin, also known as "Xianguan" or "Quanzhou Nanyin", is the traditional music in southern Fujian. It was listed as the intangible cultural heritage of human beings in 29, known as "the living fossil in the history of China music". It was sung in Minnan language, brought in by ancient Central Plains immigrants and blended with southern Fujian folk music, with the characteristics of ancient Central Plains music.

Nanyin, known as "the living fossil in the music history of China", originated in Quanzhou, Fujian, and was sung in Minnan dialect, which is the Han music with a long history in China. Immigrants from the Central Plains in the Han, Jin, Tang and Song Dynasties brought music culture into southern Fujian with Quanzhou as the center, and merged with local folk music, forming a cultural expression with the charm of ancient music in the Central Plains.

Nanyin originated in the Tang Dynasty and was formed in the Song Dynasty. Nanyin's singing method retains the traditional and ancient national singing method before the Tang Dynasty, and its singers and performers' second creation is very arbitrary, while Nanguan's performance also maintains the characteristics of the Tang and Song Dynasties. Its music is mainly composed of three categories, namely "finger", "score" and "qu", and it is a big kind of music with rich and complete ancient music system in China.

As far as the spread of Nanle is concerned, the "string tube" guide tube music is mainly played with the string of bamboo and flute, which was mostly called "string tube" in ancient times; "Langjun Music" and "Langjun Singing" refer to the southern wind musicians who worship Langjun of Mengfu as a music god. There are also called "Jin Qu" and "Five Tones". ?

Singing form

The singing form of Quanzhou Nanyin is right pipa, three strings, left hole flute and two strings, and the clapper is in the middle and sings, which is in the same strain as the expression form of harmony songs of "the silk and bamboo are more harmonious, and the festival performers sing" in Han Dynasty. Its Gongchi notation is a self-contained system, which is the remains of ancient music notation. Crouching pipa, ten-eye and nine-section flute, two-string and three-string clappers, etc.

they also follow the legacy of ancient musical instruments. There are more than 2, pieces of instrumental music and harmony music in Nanyin, which contain commercial music in Jin and Qing Dynasties, Daqu in Tang Dynasty, French music, Yan music and Buddhist music, as well as lyric music and opera music since Song, Yuan and Ming Dynasties. Nanyin is sung in the standard Quanzhou dialect archaism, and its pronunciation retains the phonology of ancient Chinese in the Central Plains. When singing, pay attention to articulation and diction, and return to rhyme to receive the sound.