Folk music "Touch Eight Plate" from the album "Chinese Music Map to hear the Guzheng music collection Su Chang"
Touch Eight Tempos
Folk music Nationality: Han Nationality Region: Shandong
Zheng: Su Chang, Zhang Yuxuan
"Touch eight plate" is a unique folk music in Heze area of Shandong province, which is widely spread in Shandong. This is a strange and interesting polyphonic music. String ensemble. It is also called "tying strings to eight plates". It is an ensemble music composed of Guzheng, dulcimer, pipa and Ruyi hook in the form of melodic structure.
The structure of the music has 68 plates fixed format, and according to the different rhythm, divided into four types, all the music has eight sentences, except for the fifth sentence, each sentence is eight plates, so when playing, it seems to be natural harmony with each other "touching", hence the name.