Red Rock Culture is an important spiritual pillar that once motivated and inspired a generation of Chinese people, however, it seems to be seldom mentioned in today’s highly developed market economy. This paper focuses on the fusion of Chongqing folk music and red rock culture, and takes the construction of learners’ music learning ability as the entry point, selects the music majors of Chongqing undergraduate colleges and universities from freshmen to sophomores to conduct a questionnaire survey, and constructs an evaluation system of the ability of music majors. Factor analysis method and model clustering method are used for analysis. The results of the study show that students’ music learning ability mainly consists of professional skills, humanistic literacy, career development and emotional value, with a cumulative explained variance percentage of 66.125%, and the clustering results classify the types of students’ ability into relatively superior ability and good thinking type, versatile ability and less resourcefulness type, and low ability and mediocrity type. Based on the above, the study further constructs a STEAM interdisciplinary teaching model oriented to the integrated teaching of Chongqing folk music and Hongyan culture through STEAM education concepts, which provides an innovative path for the inheritance of Hongyan culture and folk music.
