Buddihist Music In Ancient Capital

Daxiangguo Temple is one of the ten famous buddhist monasteries in China. It is located in the center of the ancient city- Kaifeng city in Henan province, which is the capital of the ancient seven dynasties in the history of China. In the northern song dynasty ,it was well known by people as the royal temple, and it has a history of more than 1450 years up to now. In history it has raised lots of eminent monks and elitists and saw all kinds of buddhist ceremonies and culture activities. Thus it has a deep cultural deposits;especially as for its buddhist music culture, it has a long history and far-reaching influence.With the reference to the relevant documents literature on it, this thesis mainly represents the overall outline of the Daxiangguo Temple musical culture on the basis of the on-the-spot inspectation of it and the analysis and summarization of the materials about it. The first chapter systemetically outlines the development progress of the temple budihist music. The second chapter analyzed the conditions of the music and sorts the vocal form and system such as the buddihist music praise ket opern attune and the third chapter lists the types of the ceremonies and especially spots on the ceremony progress of the Buddha's Birth Day as the research object to protrate the tone in the Buddha ceremony of Daxiangguo temple, combined with the assumnation proposed by Cao ben ye that goes like this"the theoretical outline of the system belief ceremonial music"and the three basical variable thinking methods-"near-far","inside-outside"and"fixed-flexible". The fourth chapter analyzes and protrates the situations of its exist, the develpment and the transitions of the buddhist music in modern times. In a word, this thesis will give us a good approach to the whole traditional music culture in China and a beneficial supplement to the development and inherit of the buddhism music in China.