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Precious Deposits in Sea Salt Culture—Hai Zhou Five Main Tunes



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JunRong Ban

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DOI:10.17265/2159-5836/2018.08.007

Arts College, Nan Jing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, China

In traditional folk music research, when many questions can not be answered from the literature.Please go to the fields and go to the places where these folk music used to be or is being spread. In the fields, we can objectively record the traces of the artists 'activities with words, images, or videos. After careful analysis and  consideration of the folk tunes while they performed in musician’s mouth and hands, we will get unexpected results.“Hai Zhou Five Main Tunes (HZFMT)”is a typical case. If you only look at the literature, it is only a local folk narrative tunes. It is not uncommon throughout the country. However, if we go deep into the field investigation, after comparison and analysis, we can see that some of the singles music is the art of Sanqu singing that did not disappear from the Ming and Qing dynasties. These tunes are not lost, but they are handed down from generation to generation in the art population. It is also an art treasure created by the salt merchant culture.

Salt merchant culture, Hai Zhou Five Main Tunes(HZFMT), QuPai, Quyi music