Since 20th century latter half, the East and West music culture in continues to collide mutually, to affect and in mutually unceasingly the union situation, regarding many Asian modern composer, no matter is in its growth East cultural context, perhaps is accepting the Western music culture the education or contacts the Western music culture the baptism. Not difficult to discover in its creation thought, the composing music technique, receives these two kind of music culture more or less the influence. Among them, not only fits nicely is lies in the Western music culture which appears them to track down inquiring about, is rooted in the Asian music culture importance. Although has respectively in its work creation style differently, respective varying degree fuses the East and West music culture connotation actually and next gathers.

At present, has the small space Asian modern composers in the international musical world station, like on the century 80's second halves of, far go to the Ju Siao Song, Chen Yi, Tan Dun from China which American continuation music pursues advanced studies and so on. Becomes famous mostly in them in the work, not difficult to discover its writing technique between has one of mutually common characteristics, that was music performance fused the Western modern technique and the Chinese culture energetic connotation. For this paper to be studied,is precisely one has this characteristic string quartet "Eight Colors". After this first work was composer Tan Dun in 1986 studies abroad US, in Columbia University study music art doctorate period completed. Although was in vogue in at that time the Colombian academism twelve-tone writing, but composer's by no means came under this kind of writing style slightly influence, instead the diverse expression means let music fill the Western modern sound breath feeling. It is noteworthy that, in analyzes this work process, More notable is the composer to create the ingenious conception the behind, were as if more to fuse the Eastern music culture the Connotation, let music in the subtle change process, had charm and the natural rhythm ease flowing. In the work, in under the East and West culture fusion linguistic environment, most has the artistic charm place, the nothing better than timbre and the sound performance; At the same time, the constitution music text member, like the rhythm, the pitch also display the inseparable relation for the constitution music diversification. Therefore, in the research technique, this article first from the Tan Dun Life overview, the creation style as well as "Eight Colors for string quartet " the creation background mentions. Again from the timbre, the rhythm as well as the pitch related essential factor carries on discusses item by item.