Where does the theory of music come from, Xunzi music theory translation

Mozi said: "The musician is not the holy king, and the Confucian is also the one." The gentleman thought otherwise. The musician, the saint is happy, and can be kind to the people's heart, its touching is profound, and its change of customs is easy (1), so the first king led it to the harmony of the people with etiquette and music.

Notes] 1) There is no word "Yi" in the "Ji Jie" under "vulgar", which is supplemented according to the "Hanshu Lile Zhi".

Mozi said: "It is wrong for the emperor of the Holy Ming to oppose it, but the Confucian scholars emphasize it." The gentleman thinks otherwise.

** is liked by the saints, and can be used to improve the people's minds, it is deeply moving, it is easy to change customs, so the ancient holy kings used the ritual system ** to guide the people and the people were harmonious.

The history of ancient Chinese literature can be divided into four periods: germination, generation, development and heyday.

First, the embryonic period.

Da Xia", "Da Shui", "Da Wu", "Sanxiang" and "King Wen" and other large-scale music and dance, those with ** as the main description of the bell, fight inscriptions, oracle bone dictionaries, is the germ of ** literature.

Second, the generation period.

The early ** literature that is now seen, including the "Music Record", which is the culmination of Confucianism's ** thought; There are "Mozi Feile Chapter" and "Three Debates" that emphasize politics and production and oppose all ** activities; There are the earliest music and rhythm works that describe the "three-point profit and loss method", "Guanzi Diren" and "Five Elements", and there are a large number of pre-Qin historical materials such as "Lü's Spring and Autumn Great Music, Extravagant Music, Appropriate Sound, Ancient Music, Rhythm and Rhythm", etc., as well as "Xunzi Music Theory Rich Country Political Theory" and "Han Feizi Ten Mistakes" and other special chapters on ** ideological discourse. These documents are theoretical summaries of pre-Qin thought and artistic activities.

3. Development period.

1.Theoretical works. From the Han Dynasty to the Tang Dynasty, there are nearly 50 species, including the dead part.

Among them, the famous pianist Ji Kang at the end of the Wei Dynasty during the Three Kingdoms period wrote "The Theory of Music without Sorrow", which has a major breakthrough in aesthetic issues2The Book of Ritsu. For example, there are Liu Xiang's "Zhong Lushu", Liang has Liang Wudi's "Zhong Luwei", the Northern Zhou has Shen Chong's "Le Luyi", Zhen Luan's "Five Classics of Arithmetic", and Tang Youwu Zetian's "Music Book Records" and so on.

With the addition of the known extinction part, there are no less than 30 species. The original book of "Music Book Records" has long been lost in China, but fortunately, some Japanese students sent Tang Dynasty students to send this book to Japan, although they have been lost a lot, but it still exists.

Five, six, seventeen, vol. 3. The seventh volume is the earliest surviving document that clarifies the true meaning of the ancient Xuangong.3The music books and legal chronicles in the history of official revision. There are "Historical Records, Music Books, and Laws and Books", "Former Han Dynasty Books, Chronicles of the Laws of the Society", and "Later Han Books".

Bai Juyi (Suzhou Tiger Hill Baigong Ancestral Hall) is from "Xin Yuefu" Zimo or "Bai's Changqing Collection", you come to Suzhou to play the Conglu dialect, you must see Tiger Hill. I'm from Suzhou, I've seen this couplet with my own eyes, and I'm still on the street. The original text is:

On the poets of the Tang Dynasty, Li Du was far away, and there were only a few new Yuefu;

Suzhou has a history of thorns, on the side of lakes and mountains, there are still three old ancestral halls.

Came to Zheng Dou.

Bai Juyi (Suzhou Tiger Hill White Ancestral Hall).

On the poets of the Tang Dynasty, Li Du was far away, and there were only a few new Yuefu;

Suzhou has a history of thorns, on the side of lakes and mountains, there are still three old ancestral halls.

From "Xin Yuefu" or "Bai's Changqing Collection".

Is it six?,Winter vacation homework is really distressing!!

Positive and negative dreams" and "Wei Wen's Candidate Candidate" have not been found??? Tell me!!

Classmate, you are in the sixth middle school, your life is hard, and you can't find the classical Chinese from Teacher Ye!

Me too, Mr. Ye. But I'm done with it.

Therefore, there is a theory that there is a foot in the rear.

Therefore, there is a saying that the music official Houkui only has one foot.

Le Zheng is the chief in charge of ** in ancient times;

Hou Kui is a personal name, and legend has it that he is the music official of Emperor Shun.

Because of this, there are rumors that Le Zheng Houkui only has one foot. (The original meaning of "Kui Yizu" is that it is enough to have such a person as Hou Kui to be Lezheng, but it was misrepresented by later generations that he only has one foot.) ）

Translation: Hence the argument that there is one foot after the pleasure.