Qin Confucian Music And Moral Study

The relationship between music and moral is the key of Confucian aesthetic idea in Pre-Qin days. As a sound music, Confucianism in Pre-Qin days thinks music can cultivate moral emotion and hamony, also achieve social integration between the aesthetic and moral, of course including the harmony of the universe, they are "the music with no sound" that are the pursuit of the realm of Confucian.Emotion is a bridge between music and moral interaction, the transcendence and freedom about music aesthtic emotion can make person communicate with the universal mind each other,and also interlink moral awareness and moral sentiments. Music aesthetic emotion develop a deeper love and compassion, this kind of love and compassion is precisely the basis of Confucian charity emotion. Confucianism know deeply that people's reason can not do without the moral power of emotion, people's moral behavior should come from real emotion, the resolution about relationships from the "rites", that should be complementary with the communication about interpersonal mind from "music".Music is formal emotion. It is important that the form of music are for training human conscience. Music not only uses theritual ceremony which is ritual and theatrical to train people to comply with norms, harmony, gentle behavior, temperament and deportment, but also cultures human conscience with form which is harmony but not sameness or orderly. Human's ethics and the political should be harmony and orderly as music, because music is a symbol of universe harmony. All of these are of great value and ideological significance in the Confucian aesthetic.