Ritual and the Connotation of Music Culture

The connotation of ritual and music culture is as follows:

Rites and music culture refers to the enlightenment of rites and music to the whole world, which makes people cultivate themselves, understand heaven, be modest and polite, and be orderly. This is the connotation and significance of "ritual and music culture" in China's classical works, and it is also the original intention of the ritual and music system for saints. The Book of Rites and Music says: "The sum of heaven and earth is the musician; Ceremony is the order of heaven and earth.

Harmony makes everything different, and order makes everything different. "Rites are the classics of heaven and the meaning of earth, and they are the most important order and rules between heaven and earth; Music is a beautiful voice between heaven and earth and a manifestation of morality. How grand the spirit of the ceremony is, the harmony between heaven and earth! So "happiness and harmony between heaven and earth, courtesy and harmony between heaven and earth".

Rites and music include etiquette and music. China's culture attaches great importance to rites and music. "Li" refers to various etiquette norms, while "Le" includes music and dance. The origin of rites and music is synchronous with the evolution of human civilization. "Rite and Music Culture" has created the brilliance of mankind in the history of Chinese civilization.

Although modern industrial and commercial scientific and technological civilization attaches too much importance to material interests, the traditional "ritual and music culture" has been impacted by commercial secular culture and lost the essential spirit of classical simplicity. However, the traditional "ritual and music culture" can still promote human morality and make people realize self-improvement today.

The recorded rites and music began in Xia and Shang Dynasties, and the rites and music system of Duke Zhou formed a unique cultural system in the early Zhou Dynasty. Later, Confucius and Mencius combined the essence of predecessors, and created a Confucian cultural system with rites, music, benevolence and righteousness as the core, which was inherited and developed, and was an important part of China's ancient civilization. The culture of rites and music of the Chinese nation has established China as a state of rites and music, also known as a state of etiquette.