The Important Factors of Music Communications about the Great Canal—Transportation and Population

Abstract

On ancient China, there had been widespread propagation of music on the River Basin. Based on the analyzing relevant documents, we can know - the important factors of promoting music communications about the River Basin are traffic and large floating population of the Canal. On ancient China, there had been widespread propagation of music on the River Basin. Its range had covered numerous classes such as opera, quyi, folk song and folk dance. It also bred local quyi music along the canal, for example, Beijing dock tune, Tianjin shi diao, Linqing shi diao, Jining ping diao or Yangzhou qing qu; caused the interaction between folk songs of southern and northern and folk dance and promoted the widespread propagation of Shengqiang (common systematic tunes of many varieties of Chinese operas) or drama along the canal, for instance, Geyang Tune, Kunshan Tune, Bangzi Tune, Anhui Opera and Beijing Opera. Then, what on earth has promoted the music propagation of the River Basin? Through analyzing relevant literature we can get that the important factors of promoting the music propagation of the River Basin are the developed transportation and numerous floating population.