The Study On Confucian Music Education

Li(礼)and Yue(乐) exert a profound influence in the history of Chinese aneient soeiety, life and eulture. Confucian hold that Li( 礼) can distinguish the strict hierarchy of order, and Yue(乐) is important to the nobility’s ability of sageliness within and kingliness without, and Yue can transform social traditions. Yue(乐) was regarded as one of the means to govern the country to reach the Benevolent Society of Confucian, which consolidate the moral order. Yue(乐) also was one of the important contents in adult education, which translate the heteronomy ritual into self-discipline, so it is a Confucians moral practice.Yue Ji(乐记)is not only a classical musical aesthetics book,but also a classical philosophical literature of great importance.Though people have different views about the completing time of Yueji,Yueji is a very important music education works of Pre-Qin Confucianism,which is typical of Confucian music education.Yue Ji(乐记)analyzes the difference between Yin(音)and Yue(乐),they are different in both form and content,and Yue(乐)is higher than Yin(音).Not all people are eligible for learning Yue(乐),just the ruling class can obtain the elite education,Then they educate the mass by what they have learned,and consolidate the moral order of Li(礼).Confucian enriched the contents of Yue(乐)with philosophical concepts,and analysed systematically the relationship between Yue(乐)and nature and society and individual,which shows the ethics of(礼)and also derive the legal validity of Yue(乐).In modern society, Confucian music education lost the original system environment of survival, but it still has the positive consequence of moral and aesthetic education, and enriching man’s inner life and building the good social atmosphere, so Confucian music education continues to be relevant in our times.