Collection of Chinese Quyi Music, is a publication that combines quyi music, social life and cultural traditions. The Collection integrates sound, music scores, text, graphs and pictures, and is logically and systemically organized and lucidly classified. As a whole, it reflects the evolution, development and current state of quyi music with its accurate and full music scores, general introduction and music text.

Collection of Chinese Quyi Music fully demonstrates China's ancient historical traditions and rich collections of quyi music, It becomes fully evident how splendid and rich quyi music is through 509 genres of opera music identified for Han People alone, such as paizi music, dagu lyrics, tanci, qinshu, daoqing, local ditties, etc. The Collection consists of 29 volumes, one for each province or municipality or autonomous region (except Hainan), with a total of over 43,500,000 words. Each volume has about 1,500,000 words augmented with over 2,000 illustrations of stage performances, representative actors or performers and their relevant historical materials.

Twenty-two volumes of The Collection of China's Quyi Music have already been published and the rest will be completed by 2005.