Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v2.c11.s1.t1.2

v2.c11.s1.t1.2

According to *Sui Book · Music Collections*, in the 18ᵗʰ year of Jianyuan Period (382 CE) of Former Qin, “Lü Guang and Juqu Mengxun occupied Liangzhou, changed the Kucha music and called it Qin and Han Music; Taiwu of Wei occupied Hexi and called it Xiliang Music; and up to Wei and Zhou, it was called national music”. Therefore, even though in original Chinese music such as “National Music” and “Xiliang Music”, Kucha music elements were also integrated. With regard to the music of Boukhara, Sulaq, Samarkand and Chotscho, they were apparently derived from Kucha music or “adapted from Kucha music”. There were two possibilities why music works were named by state names, one was because those musicians came from those countries, the other was because the music styles of those countries were retained in the related music works to some extent.