Guqin Musical Culture And Its Enlightenment On Modern Musical Education

The author' s motive in writing this essay is, on the one hand, I wants to get some idea of Guqin musical culture; on the other hand, I tries to explore whether modern musical education can get some enlightenment from it. The purpose for the study is, for one thing, to draw people' s attention to Guqin musical culture so as not to break its continuity; for the other thing, through the study the writer intends to probe into the reason why it was essential for the ancient scholars to learn about Guqin musical culture and what modern musical education can draw from it. This essay is written on the basis of the analysis on real life and related data and documents in which the writer understands why Guqin musical culture isn' t on the wane for so long time and its implied correlation with modern musical education.This essay consists of Introduction, Main Body, Conclusion. The Introduction deals with the orientation and significance of the study of the subject. The main Body contains four parts. In the first part the writer expounds the history and the status of Guqin musical culture; The second part covers the educational and philosophical ideas embodied in Guqin musical culture; The third part talks about its musical aesthetical standards in philosophical ideology; The last is about the experience and inspiration from Guqin musical culture gained by modern musical education through analysing the problems existing in modern education.The essay concludes that there exists lots of educational ideas in Guqin musical culture, including emphasizing on the philosophical ideology in musical works, training the mode of musical thinking, valuing the culture in musical education, which are of great importance for reference and in theory, whether in solving the existing problems in modern musical education, or setting up an educational system or in fostering the mode of musical thinking and aesthetical standards with Chinese features.