江南絲竹——來自東方的嬝嬝餘音，Jiangnan Silk and bamboo——This is wonderful music from the East.

江南丝竹是流行于江苏南部、浙江西部、上海地区的丝竹音乐的统称。因乐队主要由二胡、扬琴、琵琶、三弦、秦琴、笛、箫等丝竹类乐器组成，故名。
明代嘉隆年间，以魏良辅为首的戏曲音乐家们在太仓南码头创制昆曲水磨腔的同时，以张野塘为中坚人物组成了规模完整的丝竹乐队，用工尺谱演奏，由昆曲班社、堂名鼓手兼奏，后逐渐形成丝竹演奏的专职班社。明万历末在吴中（苏州地区）形成了新的乐种“弦索”，可算是江南丝竹的前身。它与民俗活动密切结合，有着广泛的群众基础，后正式定名为江南丝竹。
Jiangnan Silk and bamboo is a general term for silk and bamboo music popular in southern Jiangsu, Western Zhejiang and Shanghai. Because the band is mainly composed of erhu, Yangqin, pipa, Sanxian, Qin Qin, flute, Xiao and other silk and bamboo instruments, it is named.
During the Jialong period of the Ming Dynasty, opera musicians led by Wei Liangfu created Kunqu water mill cavity at the South Wharf of Taicang. At the same time, with Zhang Yetang as the backbone, they formed a large-scale silk and bamboo band, played with ruler music, played by Kunqu class and famous drummers, and gradually formed a full-time silk and bamboo performance class. At the end of Wanli of the Ming Dynasty, a new music species "string rope" was formed in Wuzhong (Suzhou area), which can be regarded as the predecessor of silk and bamboo in the south of the Yangtze River. It is closely combined with folk activities and has a broad mass base. Later, it was officially named Jiangnan Silk and bamboo.