Changes and Implications of Music Education in the Context of Sino-Western Musical Exchanges in the Ming and Qing Dynasties

During the Ming and Qing dynasties, along with the entry of a large number of Western missionaries into China, large-scale cultural exchanges once again took place in China's history - the eastward trend of Western learning. During this period, Chinese and Western cultures frequently came into contact, collided, and mutually ingested and dissolved each other. After absorbing the elements of Western music, Chinese music achieved a certain degree of expansion and produced many outstanding artistic achievements. It can be said that it was the eastward transmission of Western music that injected new vitality into Chinese music, making it more colorful and glowing with unprecedented charm. In this paper, we will specifically discuss the influence of Chinese and Western music exchanges on music education in the Ming and Qing dynasties from three aspects.