The development course of Bai Fantuan in Foguang Mountain

Praise music, which Buddhism calls "praise white". "praise", Sanskrit "one horizontal Luo"; "White", Sanskrit "Posi". "Praise for white" means to praise Buddha's nature, which originated from primitive Buddhism. It is this kind of "white praise" or "Bai Fan" music that was first introduced to China. According to legend, Bai Fan, the earliest Buddhism in China, was created by Cao Zhi, a famous poet of Wei during the Three Kingdoms period. In Yushan, Shandong Province, he heard the sound of the tides and the chanting of the ancient temple, which inspired him to write the forty-two deeds of Yushan Bai Fan.

The combination of "Zanbai" and China's music has gradually evolved and lost its true colors, but it is still regarded as the orthodoxy of Buddhist music by Buddhists. Popular Buddhist temples, such as Tomizan, Pharmacist Zan, Zan Buddha Dai and Guanyin Zan, all belong to this category. According to the theory of great wisdom, before becoming a Buddha, Sakyamuni became a monk with Maitreya to practice bodhisattva. One day, when he saw the Buddha in the fire, he let out light. Sakyamuni spent seven days and seven nights praising the Buddha, so he was saved as a Buddha nine times earlier than Maitreya. Therefore, Buddhism attaches great importance to praising Buddha with sound. There is no essential difference between the newly created ode music and the traditional ode music, and both belong to the ode category of Buddhist music.