China's Traditional Music and Music Aesthetics Thought

China's traditional music has a long history and profound aesthetic thoughts. The aesthetic consciousness of China ancestors can be traced back to ancient times, and there is no written record. Since the primitive ancestors got rid of the animal state through labor and began to know how to decorate themselves, the earliest aesthetic consciousness activities have appeared, and their aesthetic consciousness has already emerged. After experiencing slave society and feudal society, China's aesthetic thought flourished and formed a traditional aesthetic thought centered on aesthetic images.

China's traditional music stretches for thousands of years and contains many aesthetic characteristics. It is the concentrated expression of the special essence of a certain musical thought and the crystallization of musical thought. The thinking habits of a country and a nation play an important role in the formation and development of its aesthetic consciousness. The traditional thinking habit of the Chinese nation determines that the ancient philosophers in China pursued a way of thinking that is both antagonistic and unified, and regarded both sides of contradiction as an internal harmony, that is, the spirit of "harmony" in China cultural tradition. "Harmony" is the concentrated expression of China's traditional cultural consciousness and spirit in the aesthetic field, which runs through the core idea of China's traditional music aesthetics.