This article examines the role of classical Chinese folk songs in facilitating a musical and aesthetic dialogue between China and Europe. For the first time, the author introduces several historical documents to Russian-language academic discourse that have not been examined in Western academic music scholarship. These documents serve as a guide for Chinese researchers analysing the complex processes of musical and intercultural integration within the chronological framework of the 18th century. Using the history of the Chinese folk song 'Jasmine Flower' as an example, the author argues that the introduction of the characteristics of Chinese folk song to the European musical community, which laid the foundation for subsequent intercultural exchange, was significant for both the artistic synthesis of Chinese and European aesthetics and the dissemination of China's musical mission abroad. This remains a key focus of contemporary China's cultural strategy, considered within the paradigm of the dialectic of tradition and modernisation, and in the context of mutual understanding and respect for cultural diversity.