禅宗使中国传统音乐摆脱了写实主义的局限,它表现的内容更加广博,它的形式更加多样,它追求更加空灵、幽远的意境。一佛教自汉代传入中国以来,经过魏晋南北朝时期,再到唐代,出现了一各种中国本土化的佛教宗派,禅宗即是其中之一。到唐朝中晚期,禅宗逐渐成为汉传佛教的主流,一直延续流传至今。 Zen has made Chinese traditional music get rid of the limitations of realism. It shows more extensive content, more diversified forms, and pursues a more ethereal and distant artistic conception. Since the introduction of Buddhism into China from the Han Dynasty, Zen Buddhism has emerged as one of the various Buddhist sects in China since the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties and the Tang Dynasty. By the middle and late Tang Dynasty, Zen Buddhism gradually became the mainstream of Han Buddhism, which has been extended to the present day.