Chapter 68 ancient music

Ancient and modern are relative, and ancient music has two meanings, broad sense and narrow sense. In a broad sense, ancient music refers to the music of the previous dynasties, especially in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods, it refers to the so-called "music of the former kings", that is, "Grace music", which corresponds to the so-called "new sound" and "Joy of the present", which is also the so-called "music of the past". vulgar music". Ancient music in a narrow sense refers to music from ancient times to before the Zhou Dynasty. "Lu Shi Chunqiu" has "Ancient Music Pian" dedicated to ancient music.Music in ancient times not only has no physical data, but even written data, it is only the legend of later generations.For example, no one knows what the "Ge Tian's joy", "Zhu Xiang's joy" and "Yinkang's joy" in "Lu Shi Chunqiu" are like.However, since the Yellow Emperor, including the period of Yao, Shun, Yu, Tang and King Wu of Zhou, there are not only relatively specific records of music and dance, but also were actually used in performances such as sacrifices in the suburbs of temples in the Zhou Dynasty, and they were used as teaching "children of the country". " (noble children who entered Taixue) textbooks, that is, the famous six "big dances", which are: "Yunmen Dajuan" by Huangdi, "Daxian" by Tang Yao, "Dashao" by Yu Shun, Xia Yu's "Da Xia", Shang Tang's "Da Sui", and Zhou Wu Wang's "Da Wu". Books such as "Book of Rites·Le Ji" also recorded in detail the performance forms of these songs and dances.