The Value of Changzhou Ci

Changzhou chanting is an important witness to the spread of China's ancient poetry singing form today. It not only shows the style of literati chanting music in history, but also preserves the phonological characteristics of Wu dialect, which provides an important reference for us to understand the singing characteristics of medieval southern poetry today and has high historical and cultural value. Today, it is still carrying forward China's traditional culture, inheriting the essence of China's classical literature, and playing an educational function of entertaining in the United States and China. This is of great significance to enhance the cultural identity of Chinese on both sides of the Taiwan Strait and overseas, and to cultivate the noble patriotic sentiments of the next generation. From an interdisciplinary point of view, its comprehensive research value in literature, art, linguistics and other disciplines is self-evident.