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Nanguan (; also nanyin, nanyue, or nanqu) is a style of Chinese classical music originating in the southern Chinese province of Fujian, and is also now highly popular in Taiwan, particularly Lukang on west coast.
Fujian is a mountainous coastal province of China. Its provincial capital is Fuzhou, while Quanzhou was a major port in the 7th century CE, the period between the Sui and Tang eras. Situated upon an important maritime trade route, it was a conduit for elements of distant cultures. The result was what is now known as nanguan music, which today preserves many archaic features.
It is a genre strongly associated with male-only community amateur musical associations ( quguan or "song-clubs"), each formerly generally linked to a particular temple, and is viewed as a polite accomplishment and a worthy social service, distinct from the world of professional entertainers. It is typically slow, gentle, delicate and melodic, heterophonic and employing four basic scales.
Nanguan may refer to:
- Nanguan (music) , a style of Chinese classical music
- Nanguan District , Changchun, Jilin
- Nanguan Subdistrict, Suzhou, Anhui, in Yongqiao District, Suzhou, Anhui
- Nanguan Subdistrict, Baoding, in Nanshi District, Baoding, Hebei
- Nanguan Subdistrict, Zhangjiakou, in Xuanhua District, Zhangjiakou, Hebei
- Nanguan Subdistrict, Anyang, in Wenfeng District, Anyang, Henan
- Nanguan Subdistrict, Xuchang, in Weidu District, Xuchang, Henan
- Nanguan Subdistrict, Zhengzhou, in Guancheng Hui District, Zhengzhou, Henan
- Nanguan Subdistrict, Datong, in Cheng District, Datong, Shanxi
- Nanguan Subdistrict, Jiaozhou, in Jiaozhou City, Shandong
- Nanguan Subdistrict, Weifang, in Weicheng District, Weifang, Shandong
- Nanguan, Zunyi, in Honghuagang District, Zunyi, Guizhou
- Nanguan, Lingshi County, in Lingshi County, Shanxi