手风琴作为一种西方文化的载体，自传入中国已有百余年的历史，并与中国社会紧紧相连。70-80年代，手风琴在中国拥有众多的爱好者及演奏者，社会基础广泛，并将西方文化与中国环境相结合，衍化成为具有中国文化特色的艺术品种。 本文从手风琴这种乐器自身的特点出发，结合手风琴在中国的发展历程，探求由于时代的变化，市场的变化，对于手风琴演奏者，创作者及教学者来说，怎样发挥乐器的优势方面，以适应当今音乐市场的需求，将手风琴艺术的发展带出目前的低谷状态。

Accordion, a carrier of Western culture, has a history of more than 100 years in China since it was imported. It is closely linked with the Chinese community where there were a large number of fans and players during the period of 1970’s and 1980’s. Accordion,with a wide audience in China, has successfully involved the western culture into the Chinese cultural environment and has become an art sytle with Chinese characteristics This paper starts from the the features of accodion. And then combined with the discussion of its development in China, the paper tries to explore what the accordion players, teachers and musicians should do to exploit the advantages of this musical instrument to the full in order to adapt to the present music market demands and change the current dismal situation of accordion.