Vocal art in the music therapy of China: history of development

Music therapy has irreplaceable advantages among other psychothera-peutic methods. In recent years, the Chinese community of clinical psychology has been making tireless efforts to develop a localized model of musical psychotherapy and methods of musical psychotherapy. Music therapy is a new direction in the research, but its history goes back many centuries. The article considers the history of the role of singing in the Chinese music therapy.