Jiangnan Sizhu is the general name of Sizhu music popular in southern Jiangsu, western Zhejiang and Shanghai. Jiangnan Sizhu Band is more flexible, with erhu and flute as the two main musical instruments, usually three to five people, or as many as seven or eight people. There are three kinds of stringed instruments, pipa and dulcimer. Wind instruments include Xiao and Sheng; Percussion instruments include drums, boards, wooden fish and bells. Because the band is mainly composed of Erhu, dulcimer, Pipa, Sanxian, Qin Qin, flute, Xiao and other silk and bamboo instruments, it is named Jiangnan Silk and Bamboo. Bamboo music is very popular in cities and rural areas in these areas, but its style is completely different. Urban silk and bamboo music is elegant and gorgeous, with a hundred flowers blooming and spreading widely; Gong and drums are often used in rural areas, with warm atmosphere and simple style.

The structure of the music of silk and bamboo in the south of the Yangtze River is not only the common feature of folk songs, but also the most representative structural feature formed by the variation of banqiang. This feature forms a changeable song, which forms a cluster of divertimento around the mother song in the music of silk and bamboo. For example, it can evolve into Zhong Ban (abbreviated as) and slow three Liu; The Old Sixth Board can be evolved into Fast Sixth Board, Middle Sixth Board, Chinese Liu Ban and Slow Liu Ban (these five songs are commonly known as five generations under one roof). These pieces of music can be played independently, or in the order from complex to simple, from diffusion to fast. Take Old Liu Ban as an example: its playing order: slow six boards (one board with seven eyes, elegant and slow melody); "six boards in Chinese flowers" (one board with three eyes, beautiful and smooth melody); The sixth board (one board, one board, light and steady melody); Fast six boards (water board, lively and lively melody); Old Liu Ban (water board, simple melody). The variation of banqiang is applied to a piece of music, and the contrast effect is relatively strong.

Eight famous songs of Jiangnan silk and bamboo;

1. Song of Joy

2. Yunqing in Yunnan

4-in-1 Everything is as we wish.

Step 4 walk in the street

5. China Flower Six Plates/Xunfeng District Medium Fancy Six Beats

6. Three Six/Three Plums Three Six

7. Slow six boards and slow six beats

8. Spend three or six years on fancy six beats.