Music of the Ten Kingdoms during the Period of Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms:The Formation of the Music Culture Pattern of"Diversity in Unity"during the Period of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms
Ten Kingdoms refers to a number of local regimesat the end of the Tang Dynasty,the Five Dynas-ties and the beginning of the Song Dynasty,which were outside the Central Plain region,mainly:Former Shu,Later Shu,South Wu,Min,Wu Yue,South Chu,South Han,South Ping,South Tang,and North Han.The relationship between these ten states was complicated as they were one after the other or developed parallelly.The period of the Ten Kingdoms is the middle zone of the Tang and Song dynasties and the key node of the transformation of music culture,and its music culture development has distinctive regional char-acteristics and commonality of the times,compared with that of the Five Dynasties in the Central Plains in the same period.From the comprehensive research on the music of the Five Dynasties and the music of the Ten Kingdoms,it can be seen that,in the short time axis and complex spatial and regional distribution,a-long with the music of different regions and regimes developing in the process of exchanges,interaction,and intermingling,the core music culture of the Han-Wei and Sui-Tang dynasties has been continuing to de-velop.This is a process of fusion from"plurality"to"unity"that has never been interrupted in the long course of history.
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