What is the ritual and music system?

Rites of the Western Zhou Dynasty, used in the Western Zhou Dynasty, are social laws and ethics. As a legal system, it is the embodiment of the social and political system, and it is the etiquette in maintaining the superstructure and the corresponding interpersonal communication.

The music of the Western Zhou Dynasty, in the Western Zhou Dynasty, takes five tones and eight tones as music, and the five tones are scales, that is, palace, Shang, horn, sign and feather. Eight tones are the classification of instrumental music, that is, Yi, Sheng, Drum, Pipe, String, Qing, Bell, Bang and so on.

Duke Zhou knew that in order to consolidate the political power, besides martial arts, he also needed "literary ambition", so he started the "ritual and music system". The so-called ritual and music system is to institutionalize the rights and obligations of all social strata through the form of ritual and music.

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Duke Zhou's ritual and music system involves a wide range of contents, such as the eldest son's succession to the throne, the Jing Tian system, the penalty system and the music system. Covering almost all levels of the country.

He formulated the patriarchal clan system in China, standardized the behavior of China people for more than 3,000 years, and laid an ideological and moral foundation.

The ceremony was originally a primitive religious ceremony in which ancient people prayed for blessings. In this ceremony, all the activities of offering sacrifices, praising gods and praying for blessings are carried out according to certain rules.

In the early years of the Western Zhou Dynasty, courtesy changed from a religious system to a basic social system after the transformation of Duke Zhou and others, which stipulated all aspects of aristocratic social life and national political life.

Music, originally an auxiliary primitive religious ceremony, was a means for the ancients to "convey to heaven the desire to praise and entertain God in the form of dance and music".

At the beginning of the Zhou Dynasty, after the transformation of Duke Zhou and others, music became the basic way for people to exchange feelings in social occasions such as ancestral halls, clans and villages, and father and son boudoir.

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia-Western Zhou Dynasty Rites and Music System