The daily life of the Shanghainese is filled with joy, anger, happiness and grief(the “grief” is a feeling of extreme sadness) , which can be perceived through the melody of the local music(地方音乐dìfāng yīnyuè). 

The Traditional Shanghai music diversifies(when an organization or person diversifies into other things, or diversifies their range of something, they increase the variety of things that they do or make) in variety: based on an abundance of folk ballads(a long song or poem which tells a story in simple language) and operas, the music has blended in folk wisdoms, displaying a flourishing scene of “all flowers blossoming“(百花齐放băihuā-qífàng).