Nanning Nanshan Art Vocational and Technical School tells you that, in a narrow sense, the so-called Chinese national music is the music with national characteristics that has been created from ancient times to the present on the basis of a long history and cultural tradition and can reflect the national culture and spirit. In a broad sense, folk music refers to the music created by Chinese musicians and the music with Chinese five tones.

National music is the song or music produced and spread among the people, which represents the folk life and production. Chinese folk music art is a very distinctive art form in the world. In the thousands of years of civilization, the Chinese nation has created a large number of excellent national music cultures and formed a national music system with profound connotation and rich content. This system occupies an important position in the world music. To understand Chinese music, we must not only sing some Chinese songs and listen to several pieces of traditional music, but also study Chinese music from the national, historical and regional perspectives to understand Chinese music, so as to truly understand the connotation of Chinese music and its position and historical value in the world music system.

National music is divided into: folk songs, folk song and dance music, folk instrumental music, folk rap music and folk opera music.