With the continuous innovation of "Baxi·Opening the Door to Art - Summer Art Festival", this year, Beijing Zhongshan Park Concert Hall and the Department of Folk Music of the Central Conservatory of Music have joined hands to launch "Traveling China through Ancient and Modern - National Music Marathon Music" meeting". On August 27, 6 folk music performances were presented throughout the day. The audience enjoyed the diverse beauty of the flute, Guanzi, Sheng, Erhu, Banhu, Pipa, Zhongruan, Guzheng, Yangqin, Guqin, percussion and other musical instruments throughout the day. Chinese folk music "blows, pulls, plays and hits" with different styles and appearances. During the interval of the National Music Marathon concerts, the protagonists of each concert were also invited to be a guest at the "Chinese Music Hall" to communicate with the audience on the spot.

Zhang Hongyan, the artistic director of this event and a pipa performer, said: "Thank you for the Zhongshan Park Concert Hall for providing us with such a platform, so that the outstanding teachers and students of the Folk Music Department of the Central Conservatory of Music can collectively appear here to show the style of the entire department. In this way. The novel and expressive marathon concert format is very meaningful, allowing everyone to enter the theater and experience the excellent traditional Chinese culture and music in an immersive, all-round and multi-dimensional manner.”

On the morning of August 27, the first to stage the "Chinese Music Marathon Concert" was "Drum Rhythm Gathering The Sound of Stones - China Percussion Tour Concert". Percussionist Wei Ran joined hands with students and Jinghu performer Yi Xiaolong to bring lively and passionate works such as "Bull Fighting Tiger" and "Dragon Rising Tiger Leaping". At noon, the pipa performer Fan Wei and the students performed "The Music Between Dot and Line - Pipa Tour in Western Regions", "Sunshine Shines in Tashkurgan", "Send Me a Rose" and "Spring in the Tianshan Mountains" with unique Western characteristics. All ethnic works appeared. In "The sound of the zheng is difficult to make, and the rhythm of the melody is more than enough - Zhou Wang's teacher and students zheng music sharing session", guzheng player Zhou Wang and his students, as well as piano Luan Jingxu, Yangqin Zhang Jiarui, percussion Wang Zishuo, Gong Yu brought "Lantern Festival" and "The Wind" "The Hunt" and "Deep Night" and other works.

The last piece of the night, "Traveling through China through the Past and Present - Chinese Music Carnival Concert", focused on novel and unique combination of instrumental music and creative works, showing the diversified development of folk music. Hu Yu, deputy director of the Folk Music Department of the Central Conservatory of Music, said: "The five small concerts in the daytime are based on the five most popular folk musical instruments today: guzheng, erhu, pipa, bamboo flute and Chinese percussion. Dozens of outstanding teachers and students of the Folk Music Department of the Central Conservatory of Music displayed ten kinds of folk musical instruments, which were rich in variety and gorgeous in style. The National Music Marathon demonstrated the charm of contemporary folk music through a variety of musical instruments, colorful works, and varied performance forms. The audience has a more comprehensive understanding and cognition of the traditional inheritance and contemporary development of national instrumental music.”