Court Music of Nanyue,The Wonderful Ritual Music Coming Late

The Western Han Dynasty Mausoleum of the Nanyue King represent the hanging arrangement and scale of ritual music of Zhou Dynasty,clarified as per the standards of hanging chimes and chamber music.The absorptive and integrative policies taken in the field of economy and culture by the first and second king of South State resulted in the diversified court ritual music with the characters of multi-layers and multi-sources,which joined the traditional hanging chimes band from Central Plains together with the plume people dancing of South State to perform ritual or ceremonial music,showed us the unique Lingnan characteristics in ancient music.The court music of South State is not only the pioneer of Lingnan ancient music cultural but also the continuity of the gradually disappearing ritual music culture of the Central Plains.