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The music we are popular and the instruments we use are basically Western music, while Chinese traditional music is absolutely weak. Once upon a time, traditional Chinese music was also proud of the sky and was also glorious and sacred.
The initial production and development of music is inseparable from productive labor. Music has been around since the beginning of human civilization.
Primitive hunting, sacrifice, prayer, etc. are very closely related to music. With the passage of time, music gradually took on the role of cultivating sentiments, communicating with ghosts and gods, and educating the people (for the rulers). This kind of expression and function is naturally reflected in the myth. In ancient mythology, the right to create and use music was invariably attributed to the monarchs and emperors who had made achievements in the past.
According to the "Lü's Spring and Autumn, Midsummer, And Ancient Music", the two gods who first created music in ancient Chinese mythology were Zhu Xiangshi and Ge Tianshi.
When Zhu Xiang ruled the world, the world was windy and the yang was too strong, showing a situation of extreme yang and extreme decline, and all things decayed and dissolved because they could not get the intersection of yin and yang. In order to improve this situation, Zhu Xiang created the Five Strings of The Serpent to collect Yin Qi and promote the harmony of Yin and Yang in order to stabilize the masses and secure all things. Although the name of Zhu Xiang's music is not written here, its actual use has been clearly stated.
The Music of Ge Tianshi is the earliest recorded large-scale series of music, this set of music is called "Guangle", there are eight sections, one is Zaimin, the second is Xuan bird, the third is Sui Grass and Trees, the fourth is Fenwu Grain, the fifth is Jing Tianchang, the sixth is Jiandi Gong, the seventh is Yi Dide, and the eighth is the pole of all things. These eight chapters express Ge Tianshi's gratitude to all things in heaven and earth and to the gods. This feeling is written in the name of each movement.
The first part of "Guangle" clearly expresses the ardent feelings of the creators of the music for the common people. Putting the people rather than the gods and ghosts first shows that China already had a simple people-oriented concept at a very early age. The second, third, and fourth chapters that follow are about the praise and gratitude of the people of the Getian clan for all the things on which they depend. Chapters 5, 6, and 7 deal with sacrifices to heaven and God. Chapter 8 should be a summary and summary of the theme of the song.
We don't know the specific content of "Guangle", but we can imagine that when a grand sacrifice began, several respected shamans with props made of oxtails in their hands led their people to sing and dance in front of the sacred altar, praising their tribes and people, praising the mountains and rivers, plants, birds and beasts on which they depended, and praising the God who ruled everything. When the sacrifice reached its climax, everyone's hearts were filled with gratitude and expectations for life. At this time, music was by no means vulgar entertainment, it was the most sincere praise and the most sincere prayer in the hearts of the ancestors.
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