Collection of Chinese Folk Songs

With Lu Ji as the chief editor and He Luting, Zhou Weizhi and Sui Shen as the vice editors, this collection reflects the quintessence of Chinese folk songs, which were passed down orally from generation to generation.

While the collection was being compiled in different provinces, the editors insisted on covering the widest range, gathering the most complete genres and guaranteeing the highest quality. For example, folk songs prevailing in a certain area would be investigated and collected comprehensively in forms including audio, musical scores, pictures, texts and video.

Each volume of the collection demonstrates the special features of the local music in four parts: pictures, texts, scores and folk singers introductions. There are about 300,000 folk songs in the collection, while the repertoire pieces reach about 40,000 accompanied with nearly 2,000 exquisite performing photos. Of the total 30 volumes, 28 have already been released, and the last two will be published by 2005 to finish the whole collection of 49.32 million characters.

  Collection of Chinese Traditional Opera Music

The chief editor of this collection is Zhou Weizhi and the vice editors are Lu Su, Yu Cong, Chang Jingzhi and He Wei. The collection is a multiple-volume musical series that is scientific, comprehensive and representative. The collection systematically sorts out the fine music heritages of traditional opera of various ethnic groups and different regions as well as the achievements in opera music after the establishment of the People's Republic of China.