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Phonons as collective excitations of lattice vibrations are the main heat carriers in solids.Tremendous effort has been devoted to the investigation of phonons and related properties,giving rise to an intriguing field of phononics,which is of great importance to many practical applications,including heat dissipation,thermal barrier coating,thermoelectrics and thermal control devices [1].Meanwhile,research into topology-related physics,awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics,has led to discoveries of various exotic quantum states of matter,including the quantum (anomalous/spin) Hall [Q(A/S)H] effects,topological insulators/semimetals and topological superconductors [2,3].An emerging research field is to bring topological concepts for a new paradigm phononics- opological phononics [4-6].In this Perspective,we will briefly introduce this emerging field and discuss the use of novel quantum degrees of freedom like the Berry phase and topology for manipulating phonons in unprecedented new ways.