China's history and civilization covers thousands of years, thus, China's music has also created a rich convention throughout the ages. Chinese music began with the ancient societies of four to five thousand years ago. Ancient singing and dancing began to develop as an art. By the mid-Shang and early Zhou Dynasties, China already developed a rather sophisticated music culture. Music continued to evolve over the next two thousands years while China was under the monarchic …showed first 75 words of 1828 total…

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