The Qing-era Chinese music was considered the combination of Ming and Xing-era Chinese music combined with the Ming-era Chinese music (popularized in Japan during the early 17th century) that had been introduced before and became popular from the end of the Edo period to the early Meiji period, but it died down around the Japanese-Sino War and it has slightly been carried on only in Nagasaki.
清楽は以前に伝わっていた明楽と合わせて明清楽と呼ばれ、幕末から明治初期にかけて流行したが、日清戦争の頃急速に下火となり、現在ではわずかに長崎に伝えられている。