Yangzhou Taoist music is a traditional music item in the first batch of representative items of municipal intangible cultural heritage. Taoist music, historically known as "Daoqu", "Dao Diao", "Qingqu" or "Zhengle", and commonly known as "Daoist Tune" or "Daoist Band" among the people, is an important part of Taoist culture. It is said that Yangzhou Taoist music was quietly copied from the inner courtyard of the Ming Palace and brought to Yangzhou by Taoists. Its musical language and performance style have distinct characteristics of court music and are known as the living fossil of court music. Yangzhou Taoist music is divided into two parts: instrumental music and vocal music. Instrumental music uses more than ten kinds of classical instruments such as flute, pipe, flute, string, violin, cloud gong, gong, wooden fish, sandalwood board, and big drum, with qudi as the main instrument, and bells and chimes; vocal music has the forms of "song", "praise", "buxu", "jie", etc., and "chant" and "chant" are often used when singing. The "Qingchui Di Pu" is the representative work, and the four seasons Taoist songs are a common repertoire. They are simple and elegant, solemn and harmonious, quiet and far-reaching, flexible and changeable, and fully express the functions and artistic conception of classical music. They can be called a wonderful flower of traditional Chinese music. (No pictures yet, welcome to provide.) (No pictures yet, welcome to provide.)