Yangxian Buddhist music is a very unique cultural phenomenon in the history of Chinese culture. It is amazing for its eloquence of historical testimony and its originality, integrity and practicality. Yangxian Buddhist music is outstanding in Chinese Buddhist music and an outstanding representative of folk music in western my country. Since its birth in the Western Wei Dynasty, it has been popular in Yangxian, southern Shaanxi for more than a thousand years. There are four most prominent characteristics of Yangxian Buddhist music: First, Yangxian Buddhist music is a witness to the prosperous Han and Tang culture, indicating the spread of Han and Tang culture to southern my country, and eloquently illustrates the influence of Han and Tang culture. There are two main ancient roads in Yangxian. One is Tangluo Road, with its northern entrance in Xiluoyu, southwest of Zhouzhi County, Xi'an, and its southern entrance in Tangshui River Valley, Yangxian. The whole journey is 480 li and can be reached in 4 days on foot; the other is Ziwu Road, with its northern entrance in Ziwu Valley, south of Chang'an County, Xi'an, and its southern entrance in Longting Town, Yangxian. The whole line is 660 li and can be reached in 7 days on foot. The two ancient roads were important channels connecting Guanzhong, the seat of the court of the Han and Tang dynasties, and southern Shaanxi. They were the main channels for the flow of Han and Tang culture from the capital Chang'an to local areas. These two ancient roads played a decisive role in the introduction of Buddhism in Yang County, the emergence of temples, and the creation and development of Buddhist music. During the reign of Emperor Dezong of Tang, Li Shi, in order to avoid Zhu Ci's mutiny, Emperor Dezong stayed in Liangzhou and Yangzhou, where Yang County is located, for more than three months. It happened that his eldest daughter, Princess Tang An, died of illness. Emperor Dezong buried his beloved daughter in Machang, Yang County, built a tower and a shed, chanted scriptures and sang music, and saved the soul. This was a great display of Chang'an Buddhist music. This is an example of the spread of Kyoto Tang culture to the folk places. There is another issue worth mentioning. Yang County Buddhist music, which has a profound Han and Tang cultural heritage, reached its peak when it developed in the Ming Dynasty in my country. Zhiguo, a monk from Zhiguo Temple in this county, cured the eye disease of the mother of Emperor Shenzong Zhu Yijun of the Ming Dynasty. The emperor donated gold and scriptures and gave it to the drum and wind music band of Zhiguo Temple in Yang County. This has helped the spread of the dynasty's Buddhist culture to Yang County. Secondly, the most notable feature of Yang County Buddhist music is its strong folk and practical nature. Born in the Northern Wei Dynasty, matured in the Tang and Song Dynasties, and flourished in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Yang County Buddhist music has always appeared as temple music before the Republic of China. In the Republic of China and the subsequent period of breaking superstition, Yang County Buddhist music quickly began to move from temples to the people. They absorbed the nutrients of Yang County songs, folk songs, bowls, and music, and gradually became a kind of folk music in Yang County. Moreover, it is basically used for funerals by the people. It has been continuously developed and innovated in folk services. The materials have become very wide, and the musical style has become very distinctive, especially gentle and lingering, clear and long, and full of local characteristics of the Qinba Mountains and Hanzhong Basin. Because of this, the local people in Yang County love to hear and see it. When the people hold funerals, they must invite the Sutra Music Band (called "Jing Tan" in the folk) to chant and sing. This has become a habit of the local people. At present, the eight or nine Sutra Music Bands distributed in urban and rural areas of Yang County and surrounding areas are very active, and the members of the Sutra Music Bands can make a living and get enough food and clothing. Third, another notable feature of Yang County Buddhist music is its strong original ecology and integrity. The development of modern transportation has gradually neglected and deserted several economic and cultural communication channels in Yang County, such as Tangluo Road and Ziwu Road, which has made the distribution area of Yang County Buddhist music relatively remote. It is in this relatively remote environment that Yang County Buddhist music has retained its original state and its relatively complete repertoire. There are about 200 songs preserved in Yang County Buddhist music. From the perspective of content and music style, these 200 songs have obvious original marks. Finally, there is a royal temple called Zhiguo Temple in Yang County with high walls and deep moats. The Zhiguo Temple Sutra Library contains 4,173 rare sutras from the Ming Dynasty, which are basically well preserved. These sutras provide a physical basis for the application and dissemination of Yang County Buddhist music, and Yang County Buddhist music has been inherited and developed in the protection of sutras and the promotion of Buddhism. They complement each other and bring out the best in each other. It is reasonable and a fact that people have seen with their own eyes that the rare sutras from the Ming Dynasty in Zhiguo Temple in Yang County can be basically preserved intact to this day, and Yang County Buddhist music has also been basically preserved intact to this day. Yang County Buddhist music, which is so well preserved, so original, so distinctive in local characteristics, so profound in historical heritage, and still widely used by the people and has a strong vitality, is rare in the history of religion and music in my country. (No pictures yet, welcome to provide.) (No pictures yet, welcome to provide.)