The origin of Chinese music therapy of five tones therapy of Chinese medicine

1, ancient

The history of music therapy in China can be traced back from the distant ancient times to modern times, from the Neolithic era 7,000 or 8,000 years ago, the study of unearthed artifacts found that some of the patterns have been music and dance behaviors, and can be intended to the health care and treatment of the significance of it. For example, Yangshao culture, Majiayao culture, Longshan culture and so on. Lv's Spring and Autumn Annals - Ancient Music" cloud: "the former Tao Tang of the time ...... folk gas Yu blocked and stagnation, muscle and bone shrinkage does not reach, so the dance to promote the." The original song and dance is actually a musical movement therapy, to relieve the depression, smooth tendons and veins, adjusting the mind and body are indeed beneficial, and easy to popularize the implementation.

2. Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods

With the comprehensive development of the ancient Chinese civilization, the Chinese music health care therapy consciousness and methods have been perfected and developed, which is represented by the music theory of "Music Records" and the "Nei Jing" of the five tones as a focus, forming the early Chinese music therapy system of thought.

2.1 The Records of Music

The Records of Music is the earliest and most influential music theory monograph in China, a chapter of the Records of Rites, and one of the most important Confucian texts. It is said to have been written by Gongsun Nizi, a disciple of Confucius. At the time of Emperor Cheng of Han Dynasty, Liu Xiang's school "The Records of Rites" compiled twenty-three chapters, with eleven chapters compiled into "The Records of Music", which included: the music book, music theory, music rituals, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music, music and music. The Music Records systematically organizes the theory of music, defines the theory of the five tones (horns, levies, gongs, shangs, and yins), discusses the original music; the production and appreciation of music; the role of music in society and individuals, and attaches importance to the relationship between music and rites. The Record of Music says: "The music of music is also music, the qin and sepulchre are music to the heart; the senses are moved, the music is examined to cultivate morality; music is used to cure the heart, and the blood and qi are leveled."

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2.1 The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine

The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine of the pre-Qin era believed that music was closely related to the universe and the human body's qi, and introduced the five tones into the field of medicine, which not only was closely related to the human body's internal organs, emotions and personality, but also could be used to characterize the changes in the world's space and time.

"Spiritual Pivot - five sounds and five flavors" has a special chapter on the topic, the five sounds belong to the person, from the nature and parts, respectively, it and the internal organs and yin and yang meridians close relationship, and pointed out that in the treatment of the meridians should be taken. At the same time, it also lists the five grains, five animals, five fruits and five flavors, together with the five colors and five times of the day for the harmonization of the five viscera and the meridians of the qi have an important role.

Su Wen - Yin and Yang Ying Xiang Da Lun and Su Wen - Jin Gui Zhen Ru (The Golden Chamber) organically link the five tones of Gong, Shang, Jiao, Zheng, Feather, and the physiological and psychological contents of the five organs of the human body (the spleen, lungs, liver, heart and kidneys) and the five wills of the human body (thought, worry, anger, joy and fear) with the five elements, and put forward the following in detail: "Liver belongs to the wood, and its tone is the horn, and its will is the wrath; heart belongs to the fire, and its tone is the levy, and its will is the anger; heart belongs to the fire, and its tone is the levy, and its will is the anger. The heart belongs to fire, in the sound for levy, in the aspiration for joy; the spleen belongs to earth, in the sound for Gong, in the aspiration for thought; the lungs belong to gold, in the sound for Shang, in the aspiration for worry; the kidneys belong to water, in the sound for Yu, in the aspiration for fear." The idea of identifying and matching music can be seen in The Spiritual Pivot - Yin and Yang Twenty-Five People, in which the physical and mental characteristics of the body and mind are analyzed in depth according to the attributes of the five tones, such as more and less, partiality and positivity, and which are the source of the TCM doctrine of the yin and yang personality and physique.

The doctrine of the five movements and six qi in Chinese medicine proposes that the five tones are healthy and healthy, and that too little is born with each other. The five movements of the ten stems both yin and yang, the yang stem for too, the yin stem for less. For example: A Si earth palace sound, the yang soil A for the Palace of too, the Yin soil Si for the Palace of less, too much for the surplus, less for the lack of. Another example is A for the yang soil, yang soil must be born yin gold B, that is, too Gong less business; yin gold must be born yang water C, that is, less business too feather; yang water must be born yin wood Ding, that is, too feather less angle, yin wood must be born yang fire E, that is, less angle too Zheng; yang fire must be born yin soil Si, that is, too Zheng less Palace. So too little repeatedly born each other, then the yin born of yang, yang born of yin, and constantly changing and developing. The application of the five tones to characterize the laws of nature's spatial and temporal changes has become an important cornerstone of the doctrine of the "unity of man and heaven".

3. From the Han Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty, more than 2,000 years, music therapy in Chinese medicine by some medical doctors in clinical medicine in a number of aspects, to carry out the practical application of the accumulation of a lot of experience, but in terms of the overall theory and method of operation of the system, the development of the slow, not systematic, and has not been widely disseminated and applied.

In the last decade or so, with the changes in the human medical model and the re-cognition of traditional Chinese medicine, traditional Chinese medicine music therapy has begun to receive the active attention of many scholars of music therapy at home and abroad, and has begun its research, which has gradually become a new field of study.