Music Philosophy Ideology Essentials In 《Yue Ji》

Yue Ji is an earliest theoretical writings of music that has ralatively complete system in ancient China.It tries hard to chase it's own music thoughts based on theory of philosophy in the process of elaborating musical problems, and puts forward some thoughts of musical philosophy that have special features.In the study of Yue Ji, the scholars have study the quality,era and author of Yue Ji then they also research the philosophyical thoughts,musical thoughts,aesthetic thoughts etc. from different angles.Although the authors from different times had dirrerent points about the era and the anthor of Yue Ji,its contents shouldn't have objection which.are explaination and summary to the music of Confucianism in the Pre-Qin times. There are many disputes on quality of philosophical thoughts of the book, and it focus on wheather it's mentalism or materialism. In recent years, the researchers then were laid particularly emphasis on the thoughts of "the nature and thr man unite as one"and moderate thought,rather than the problem that what was it's philosophical thought of the book. The discussion of quality touched concerning on philosophyical topic of the book,so we should have an earnest research. on many metaphysics in the book."Yue"is the core concept of musical theories and philosophical thoughts of the book of musia, it have various meanings such as the" music"(sounds yuè),"joy"(sound yuè) and "happy"(sound lè) etc.. The author of the book make use of three layers of happy's meanings to explain its musical theories and philosophical thoughts.Yue Ji puts forward the standpoint thathave philosophy meaning,such as "The music com es from the heart, and the sense moves because of the substance", " The music, life of the world,the point of moderate, human feelings can't avoid", "the reason of creation, each moves mutually by type", "life but quiet, quality of the world", "theperson becomes one thing ...... put out nature's law but realize desire", "the man thatowned heart can know the nature", "the poor know how to change, the happy know what is feeling "...etc..These standpoints not only enriched the contents ofmusical thoughts of Confucianism,but also become the theoritical foundations of its musical thoughts.The point of occurrence of music" The music comes from the heart, and the sense moves because of the substancethe",concerning musical creation and realization touch the question of philosophical relation betwteen the main body and the object.Book of music puts forward the dialectical standpoint that the etiquette and the music mutually reserve, the etiquette and the music help mutually, and puts forward moderate thought,. The book considers the essence,characteristics, function of the music are harmonious.It's embody the order of the cosmos .".It lead the point of "move mutually by type"to the musical theories, and make it become the basis of musical thoughts that is metaphysicalSummaryly, Yue Ji did not consider the case as it stands and talk music for music in the process of elaborating music, but consider the music deeply,trying hard to build up it's own musical thought on certain philosophical theories.As a result,the influence of its thought has already outrun the scope of music far away, it not only produced a grave influence to the development of musiccal theories in China , but also has deep influence on the development of philosophical theories and ethical spirit molded in China.