At present, the real professional exam is the emperor exam. In addition to amateur level 8, there are three levels: professional junior, professional senior and academician level. Getting a professional junior certificate is equivalent to having a bachelor's degree from the Royal Conservatory of Music, and an advanced one is equivalent to a master's degree.
However, the exam is naturally very difficult. At present, only playing, teaching and conducting can reach the professional level. But most people want to major in music school, unless some special people need professional grades.
After the reform and opening up, with the rapid development of China's economic construction and education and the gradual improvement of people's material living standards, the pursuit of spiritual life has a good material foundation.
The broad masses of the people, especially teenagers, have a growing demand for cultural and artistic life, and an artistic trend has emerged. With the popularization of art study, social art examination has also experienced a process from scratch, from the beginning to the "hot".
Generally speaking, there are 9 stalls or 10 stalls, and the registration fee increases step by step, generally ranging from 40 yuan to 100 yuan.
From the mid-1980s, grading examinations began to appear in China, and today, dozens of units carry out various social art grading examinations. Among them, China Musicians Association, Central Conservatory of Music, China Conservatory of Music, China National Orchestral Association and many others held music grade examinations.
The art grading examination sponsored by China Federation of Literary and Art Circles, China Academy of Fine Arts and other units also has dozens of test sites all over the country. China Dance Examination sponsored by Beijing Dance Academy has set up overseas test sites in Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, as well as the United States, Canada, Singapore, Malaysia, Australia and other countries. Ballet grading examination has also opened test sites in many cities across the country.
Grading majors are also increasing year by year, and music grading has involved western musical instruments, national musical instruments, keyboards, music theory, singing and other fields; Art test grades include oil painting, calligraphy, hard pen calligraphy, sketch, color, Chinese painting and so on.
Judging from the areas where the examinations are held, more than 20 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions have been involved. Judging from the departments and units that set up the examinations, they are mainly concentrated in the affiliated associations of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles and their provincial and municipal systems, art colleges, children's palaces, cultural centers, individual art performance groups and other units of different natures, and are also undertaken by cultural companies or cultural self-employed.
Some provincial and municipal education departments are also involved; Judging from the objects who take part in the examination, there are a large number of people and a wide range of references, ranging from piano children of several years old to corporate learners of various art categories of several decades old. Some grades have nothing to do with the identification of special students, while others stipulate that extra care should be given when entering a higher education institution above a certain level, and the scope of care is different.
References:
Art grading test-Baidu encyclopedia