Zheng is one of the oldest musical instruments in China. With its elegant, quaint tone, it’s loved by the community. As time goes by, the Art of Zheng is entering the professional art schools as an art professional for learning. After the Reform and Opening of China, the Art of Zheng has been developing rapidly, from the professional art institutions into the society. After the founding of new China, Zheng plays an important role as a guiding start or an assistant for learners and teachers. Even though Zheng has a long development history in China, but the really systematic and scientific textbooks of Zheng formed after the founding of new China. This article focuses on researching the structuring and development of Zheng textbooks, through integration method and the classification methods. By comparing Zheng textbooks of different periods, summing up the characteristics and analyzing the achievements and weaknesses, this article finally reach the purpose of elaborating the structuring and development of Zheng textbooks after the founding of China. The article is divided into four parts:the first part introduces of the Zheng textbook construction and the starting point of development which is called exploration stage. During the decade after the founding of the exploration stage, some professional Zheng teachers compiled some Zheng textbooks for better Zheng teaching results, and carried out at specialized institutions to explore and compose, making the Zheng textbook development entered into the initial stage.10years after the initial stage, the development of Zheng textbook entered the exploring stage. At this stage, the formats and contents of Zheng textbook is more fruitful, so it can satisfy more learners. The second part is focusing on prosperity phase of Zheng textbook development. After the year of2000, Zheng textbooks entered into the boom phase. Zheng textbook in this period has been detailed by types of professional amateur Zheng education of professional institutions while Zheng has a corresponding materials allocation, such as the zither playing and singing, pop songs Zheng adaptations album after another. Not only the Zheng technology developed, but also the history content, work content, the song of creative thinking, and other aspects of the system developed to flourish Zheng-related cultural, aesthetic ideas. It also allows one to reveal itself, so that the Zheng art really do theory and practice of parallel development.In the third part of the article, by comparing the characteristics of Zheng textbooks in this period, this article analyzes the achievements and shortcomings of the Zheng teaching materials. The achievements of Zheng teaching materials mainly reflected in three aspects:more mature styles, richer contents, more targeted. These textbooks can reflect the social background and humanistic ideas of different periods. They can also reflect the direction of development of Zheng Arts. However, inevitably there will be some inadequacies exist in the development process, these deficiencies reflected as:too much technology and lack of connotation, normative; zither playing and singing is not deep enough; multimedia applications is not extensive enough. In the last section, the author provides advice and opinions on building the deficiencies discussed and summed up the improvements to text technology and to strengthen the playing and singing, multimedia widely used way to make the Zheng materials function more friendly and easy to learn. In terms of the theoretical significance of the study, this paper provides a detailed analysis of the Zheng teaching materials in all stage of development and characteristics of typical characters and typical textbooks comprehensive introduction. These materials provide a theoretical basis and reference for future more in-depth Zheng teaching and research. From a practical sense, this paper combined with the theory of music education and IT knowledge, discussion, thinking and advice in simple terms of function and form so that the Zheng teaching materials can promote the development of the Zheng teaching and learning, as a modest willing of the author. |