Qingshui Taoist music is a religious music of the Han nationality in Tianshui City, Gansu Province, which originated from the Quanzhen Taoist sect. During the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, it was influenced by Taoist music in Huayin, Shaanxi Province, and was divided into the "Longmen Sect" and the "Huashan Sect" successively, which have continued to this day. When it was first created, it was a comprehensive performance form that used vocal, instrumental and percussion instruments. Because the scriptures are accompanied by musical tunes and sung with the accompaniment of percussion instruments, Qingshui Taoist music focuses on "one writing, two reciting and three blowing and beating". There are about 60 commonly used scriptures with more than 180 volumes, and the sentence patterns are mostly four-character, seven-character and ten-character sentences. Praying for peace and prosperity in the country, a good harvest, happiness and auspiciousness is its main content. In 2008, Qingshui Taoist music was selected into the second batch of national intangible cultural heritage protection list in my country. Qingshui Taoist music belongs to the Taoist ritual music of the Quanzhen Taoist sect in China, also known as fasting music or Taoist music. The production, spread and inheritance of Qingshui Taoist music have inseparable historical causes from the special humanistic and geographical environment and profound historical and cultural accumulation of Qingshui County. This makes it stand out with distinct regional characteristics and uniqueness in the style and characteristics of Taoist music, forming a splendid and wonderful flower in the religious music of the Han culture in Longyou area. As an ancient Han religious music, Qingshui Taoist music originated from the Quanzhen School founded in the Jin Dynasty in the 12th century AD. Its source came from the immortals and alchemists of the Qin and Han Dynasties. It emphasized personal cultivation and cultivation, with the cultivation of Taoism as the main purpose, and also included talismans. Its cultivation technique gradually tended to inner alchemy in the Tang and Song Dynasties, with the Zhong Neidan School as the mainstream, and the Quanzhen School was formally established in the Jin Dynasty. According to the newly compiled "Qingshui County Chronicles", Qingshui Taoist music and its Taoist sects were founded during the Wanli period of Emperor Shenzong of the Ming Dynasty (1573-1620 AD), forming two branches, "Longmen" and "Huashan", which coexisted for a long time and developed separately. The Quanzhen sect uses the Tao Te Ching, the Prajna Heart Path, and the Filial Piety Classic as classics, promotes the monastic system, requires monks to live in a monastery, emphasizes self-cultivation, abstains from alcohol, sex, money, anger, and emotions, and is pure and quiet. The outstanding feature of Qingshui Taoist music is that it uses the Quanzhen rhyme as the unified model for the "Longmen" and "Huashan" branch temples. Taoist music is generally passed down orally by Taoist priests, and the high priests are secretly passed down by the judges. However, due to the close connection between the ten monasteries, Taoist priests often travel around, so while following the Yuzhen rhyme style, they also produce several local rhymes, making the style of Taoist music have local characteristics. Qingshui Taoist music is mainly chanted in the rhyme of scriptures, and the accompaniment is mainly percussion instruments, and there are wind instruments, such as sheng, guan, flute, and xiao. The use of string instruments is relatively rare. There are 60 commonly used classics with more than 180 volumes. Taoist music is divided into two categories: "vocal music" and "instrumental music". Vocal music is pure human voice singing. It can be sung alternately with different rhythms according to the specific events in different Taoist temples. Originally there were 360 tunes, and there are more than 200 tunes still in existence and in use. Most of them are named after scriptures, such as "Kai Tan Yun", "Dian Cha Yun", "Dazan Yun", "Shan Ming Yun", etc. Whenever there is a large-scale Taoist temple, the atmosphere created by Qingshui Taoist music is magnificent and solemn, forming a complete and unique Taoist temple music system. In the history of more than 100 years of local dissemination, development and inheritance, it has had a wide influence among the people. Qingshui Taoist music has been passed down from generation to generation by Taoists. Anyone who goes up the mountain to seek the Tao, as long as they meet the Taoist's requirements for accepting disciples and are examined and qualified, can hold a ceremony of apprenticeship, be formally accepted as a disciple, and begin to preach. After a period of study and training, if the disciple can master the six elements of Taoism (blowing, beating, chanting, sticking, folding, and writing), the master will bestow clothes on the disciple (wear a Taoist crown and robes), and the disciple will officially become a new generation of Taoists. The new generation of Taoists will inherit Taoist music, etc.