How was music born in human history? What was the first song?

In fact, there was music in the pre-Qin period in China. At that time, the earliest form was that people expressed happiness or shouted slogans during hunting and gathering, and sometimes it was the voice of unified rhythm. It can be said that music was born before the appearance of human language, and the creative background was nothing more than produced from human production activities.

It is impossible to investigate when human society began. But long before human beings produced language, they already knew how to express their meaning and feelings by using the level and strength of sound. With the development of human labor, the chant of unifying labor rhythm and the cry of transmitting information to each other have gradually appeared, which is the most primitive musical prototype; When people celebrate the harvest and share the fruits of labor, they often beat stone tools and wood to express their joy and joy. This is the embryonic form of the original musical instrument.

China ancient literature is closely related to music. The poems in The Book of Songs, the earliest extant collection of poems in China, are accompanied by tunes and sung orally. This tradition has continued. For example, the integrated official poem in the Han Dynasty was called "Han Yuefu", and Tang poetry and Song poetry could also be sung at that time.

The history of western music refers to the development of western music. The music of ancient Greece and Rome can be said to be the first stage of the development of western music. Just like language, music is ubiquitous in human beings, but it does not exist even among the closest non-human relatives, which is at least beyond our understanding. But unlike language, music has no obvious adaptive function. The first song lacks a record and its name is unknown.