| Chinese folk music, which has spread orally for thousands of years, practically expressed people's thoughts and minds. This made Chinese folk music shine an eternal shine in the history of Chinese nation. However, with the development of social advancing, the spread of high technology has brought the intruding of many foreign cultures, especially with the contemporary music method. Thus, our Chinese folk music is starting to face a tough challenge.This paper shows many different ways and features in the inheritance and innovation of Chinese folk music through the analysis of its own features, the development of people's environment, the advance of scientific technology and the more cultural communication between different cultures. This paper also analyses that since the building of People's Republic of China, the great emphasis government put on folk music provides a large and deep research on the inheritance and innovation of Chinese folk music. This built a theory and practice system of Chinese folk music, and pushed the development of it within the composing of many new popular folk music. And the government will continue in exploring and contributing more. What's more, this paper analyses the brand new step Chinese folk music made from the prosperity of people's cultural life and the advance of science technology. However, the innovation time has not been that long. So it's not sure if the multiple Chinese folk music can live long.My point is, we especially the youngsters, should stand on the history shore and take the responsibility of the researches in new concepts, new theories and new works of any new attempt on Chinese folk music. We should devote ourselves to the exploring, inheritance, innovation and development of this Chinese civilized art. |