Chinese folk music is a general term for traditional Chinese musical instruments and traditional Chinese music. "Traditional Chinese music" refers to music created by the Chinese using their own unique methods and forms, and with their own unique morphological characteristics. It includes not only ancient works that have been produced and circulated in history, but also contemporary works; "traditional Chinese musical instruments" are of various types, including tang drums, flower drums, bell drums, Taiping drums, book drums, elephant-foot drums, cloud gongs, cymbals, bells, chimes, flutes, panpipes, octagonal drums, flutes, suonas, shengs, sanxians, ruans, pipa, konghous, erhus, jinghus, yangqins, guqins, etc.
