It provides full and accurate materials for inheriting, referring and developing the traditional opera music, and endeavors to be complete, accurate, precise and clear. Different volumes are based on the divisions of China's different provinces, with a total of about 20,000 arias, 10,000 instrumental tunes, 200 highlights from operas, 2,500 historical pictures and 4,000 artists introductions. Twenty-nine of the total 30 volumes have already been released and the rest will be published by 2005 to finish the whole collection of 59.22 million characters.

  Collection of Chinese Folk and Ethnic Instrumental Music

The chief editor is Li Ling and the vice editors are Huang Xiangpeng, Ding Ming and Wang Minji. The main contents in this collection are the rich traditional instrumental arias performed by folk artists in the past twenty years or so, as well as the representative instrumental music pieces (except ancient string instruments) collected between the 1950s and the 1970s. Religious, palace and sacrificial music are also collected due to its close relationship with instruments.

About 11,661 instrumental music pieces are collected in the 22 volumes that have already been published. Plenty of both black and white as well as color photos, and pictures of special local instruments also accompany the music pieces. The whole collection, with 67 million characters in 30 volumes, will be fully finished by 2006.

  Records of Chinese Quyi Music

The chief editor is Sun Shen and the two vice editors are Zhang Ming and Feng Guangyu. The collection dynamically incorporates Quyi music, social life and cultural tradition in various forms of expressions such as audio, scores, captions, tables and photos. The content selection, editing style and layout are clear and scientific. The accurate recording of the scores, the precise overviews and the detailed explanations all comprehensively reflect the development and the current condition of the time-honored Quyi music.

There are 509 different kinds of Quyi music in the Han Ethnic Group alone. There are also more than 2,000 photos of various performing styles, representative figures and historical files. Twenty-four of the total 29 volumes have been published, with the rest scheduled for release by 2006. In total, the whole collection will boast 52.6 million characters.

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