Pre-Qin Confucian Ethical Thought Music

Pre-Qin Confucian ethics musical ideas was created by Confucius,Mengzi inherit and carry forward,improved and formed the Confucian ethics musical ideology system by Xunzi eventually.Music express of human feelings and ideas.In ancient times,the original ancestors were attacked by natural disasters or animal,alarm tones to make people escape or defense;after victory in the fighting against natural disasters, they imitated the calls of nature birds and animals to express their hearts merry happy thoughts and feelings;when worshiping Heaven and Earth gods and ancestors,the music used to worship heaven and earth to express thoughts and feelings of the ancestors.Slave (Xia,Shang and Zhou) period, the musical ideas constantly enriched and improved to produce such as"Xuannniao","Contains people","With the vegetation","Fen-grain","Respect always","Da Di Gong","Depending on ethics of Earth","Respect for ordinary days"and other music and dance.Yao Di times created praising the"salt pond",Shun praised virtues of"Shao", praised king Yu to control flood after suffering's"big Summer"and other large-scale music and dance.The content of the music lyrics,from the worshiping of God,heaven and earth extended to following with interest earth , concerning vegetation and grain characteristics ,as well as praising kings of ancient dynasties,which is the pre-Qin Confucian music Ethics indirect source of the history and culture.The source of Pre-Qin Confucian musical ethical ideas directly is from the Western Zhou Dynasty (1046 BC - the former 770 years) ritual civilized system.in order to avoid war,consolidate of the New political power,Western Zhou rulers learned the lessons of extinction about Shang Dynasty and vigorously implemented a series of ritual music of civilization,ethics rules and the rich connotation of music to nurture and educate people's minds , cultivated moral qualities to meet the requirements of the rulers to effectively prompted the Western Zhou political, economic and cultural orderly manner.Eastern Zhou Dynasty is divided into Spring and Autumn Period (BC 770 - 476 BC) and Warring States Period (BC 475 - 221 BC) two periods,the bad music arose,the continued war and social turbulence.The late Spring and Autumn Period, Confucius (BC 551 - 479 BC) was born in Lu,He is the ancient Chinese politicians,thinkers and educators,Face times of hardship situation, he was actively looking for a way to solve these problem,the root causing social unrest and explore the theory of saving state and society.On the one hand ,he start a school,in struggle to promote the Western Zhou Dynasty's"ritual music"rules and educate the general public.Confucius,a large number of assimilated their achievements of civilization,founded the Confucian school of ideology,put forward the human"good"and so on.His thinking by his students compiled in the"Analects of Confucius Among them,the discussion about music simple and concise language to explain the level of ethical concept of music both good or evil and other special qualities.The successor to the pre-Qin Confucianism Mengzi , Confucius promote Confucian's human nature"good"idea to play the music and the ethical function.Xunzi the Warring States period) were pre-Qin Confucian ethical ideas synthesizer music,although he thought human nature"evil"point of view,but his idea were similar with Kong and Meng,the effectiveness of musical ethics has promote good or evil,self-cultivation and transmission of knowledge in history and culture.Pre-Qin Confucian ethical musical ideas lead people of contemporary to establish a correct world outlook,outlook on life and values,enhance the ethical character of contemporary music as well as contemporary music played the moral function of all important inspiration.