Xi'an guyue (Chinese: 西安鼓乐), also Shaanxi guyue (陕西鼓乐), is the regional Chinese ritual music genre featuring a type of wind and percussion ensemble named for its place of origin, Xi'an, in Shaanxi Province.
A folk genre, sustained by amateur groups before the 1960s,[1] it was placed on the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage List in 2009.
[4] The ensembles formerly included other instruments, such as the pipa and daqin (presumably the zheng), as witnessed in gongche manuscripts.
[3] Famous musicians include An Laixu (安来绪, 1895-1977), Daoist master of Xi'an's Chenghuangmiao temple.
"[3] The number of musical ensembles and temples of all kinds was greatly reduced during the cultural revolution in the sixties and seventies, beginning to return more as historical preservation, academic research, or tourism then as religious practice in the eighties.