On Li Zhi Musical Aesthetic Ideology "pop" Factor

What is "popular"? What is "traditional"? This seems a very simple question, as people of different musical aesthetic, "professional" and "non-professional" in the strict division of "good" and "bad" absolute positioning and more complicated. And "complex" is actually the root of understanding of the nature of music and understanding differences.Pre-ancient understanding of music can be described diversely and variously. But get ting to their understanding of the nature of music, we will find no great difference between them. The essence of music lies in the particular form of sound to display complex human inner emotions, spiritual lives and societies, so music shouldn't be limited into the human propriety as well as the Supreme. However, the theory of Li Zhi emphasizes on the humanity, which focuses on the human initiates and values. This paper intends to explore Li Zhi's musical aesthetics. On such basis, the author chooses the representative historical events chronically and analyses the essence of his theory——the tradition and popularity are inseperate, the popularity changes along the time but it still remains the spirit of tradition. Besides, this paper intends to explore a complete and unbiased aesthetical standard that find a invulgar and common criterion to measure the popular music.This paper has four chapters to discuss the existence of the element of popularity in Li Zhi'theory and the relationship between the tradition and popularity dialectically. In The last chapter, the author discusses the revelation of Li Zhi's theory on future music.