South Yangtze River String and Pipe Ensemble, once called "China’s National Music", are composed of string music instruments and bamboo tubes. To differentiate it from the South China’s String and Pipe Ensemble, this music is officially named as “South Yangtze River String and Pipe Ensemble ". In the late Qing Dynasty and the early years of the Republic of China, this ensemble won great popularity in a wide range of areas, especially in the central and rural areas of Taicang City. South Yangtze River String and Pipe Ensemble have a large number of tunes, a lively style, and many forms of structures, thus are greatly favored by the ordinary people. The generation and evolution of such an art epitomizes the development of the folk arts and the evolution of the folk customs in South of the Yangtze River over the past centuries, and it has important artistic value and historical and cultural value.
Inheritor of National Intangible Cultural Heritage String and Pipe Ensemble: none.
