Studies On "Qingyue" In Japan

Qingyue (adapted from music in the Qing Dynasty) in Japan, the fruit of musical and cultural exchanges between China and Japan, is a traditional type of music that has its existing representative works. This paper explores the main features of the history of Qingyue, its main types, works, music and dissemination through the analysis of the relationship between China and Japan, the analysis of social, political and cultural contexts in Japan, and the use of statistical comparisons and the basic principles of musicology and history. Based on this exploration this paper aims at bringing to light the cause of the formation of Qingyue and the laws of its dissemination, the features of Qingyue and its artistic traits, thus providing a better understanding of the features of musical and cultural exchanges between China and Japan. The major points and conclusions of this paper are as follows;1. There is a great influence on Qingyue of the Sino-Japanese relationship and the domestic environment of social, humanistic and musical elements. Qingyue is a micro mirror of the complex and rich development of musical and cultural exchanges between China and Japan.2. Qingyue, one of the three major music types in Japan with the other two being Japanese music and Western music, enjoys a great amount of historic information and is an important fruit of the climax of the musical and cultural exchanges between China and Japan.3. A great number of musical pieces of Qingyue came to Japan from China in the Qing Dynasty, has many features of the music in the same period and bears a close relation with the music popular along the coastal areas of China at that time. In its dissemination Qingyue took on many variations in order to adapt itself to the Japanese society.