Gufeng music

Gufeng music is a type of music genre by artists originating from the Greater China region. It is a kind of C-pop music with a background in Chinese legends, the style of Chinese folk songs and drama; melodies in the genre are similar to classical Chinese music and are played on classical Chinese musical instruments. It is similar but slightly different from Zhongguo feng music.
The lyrics of Gufeng music are created mainly based on ancient Chinese mythological legends and verses. In recent years, this kind of songs are often used in Xianxia, Wuxia games, anime, dramas, etc. This kind of music has also become popular among Internet cultures such as Hanfu movement.

History

Gufeng music was usually called Xianxia music, and what now seems like a movement began rather quietly in 2005, calling for netizens to write lyrics with ancient-styled poems for the music in some popular PC games, including The Legend of Sword and Fairy and Xuan-Yuan Sword. The name seems to derive from the namesake lyricist column on Fenbei, and the basic concept of Chinoiserie music, a term which describes Western approximations of Chinese music.