On Causes of Prevalence of Chinese Folk Music and Their Cultural Manifestation

With the help of media, some popular folk music has caught people’s eyes among various types of music. The
evolution of the folk music has reflected the social economy as well as people’s cultural experience and change of their emo- tions. However, as a branch of popular culture, the folk music has been facing with problems as emotional generalization in people’s creation orientation, and combination between symbolized content and mass media. This has led to the loss of creation independence gradually, and become the cheap emotional consumption of urban inhabitants, and hence limited its diversified de- velopment and deep involvement in the reality.