The escalation conference starts on time on 12.05 and ends on 12.40. Brothers participating should not forget to vote for the mistress, thank you.

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The educational role of the guqin

In traditional Chinese culture, the older generation always tells the next generation: to accumulate virtue and do good! What is "virtue"? This is a very serious topic. In the inheritance of Confucianism, the Chinese people start from family ethics and integrate "virtue" into self-cultivation, treating people and other related things; they also teach their younger generations to pay attention to etiquette. Confucianism advocates: "Survey things, achieve knowledge, sincerity, uprightness of the heart, self-cultivation, management of the family, governing the country, and pacifying the world", and tells people how to cultivate themselves. In addition to Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhist thoughts also had a profound impact on Chinese culture.

Among all kinds of musical instruments, the guqin attracted my attention, because the guqin emphasizes "qin virtue", and there are some rules before learning the qin. These principles echo the teachings of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism, and are very worthy of exploration and introduction.

Cai Yong's "Qin Cao" records: "In the past, Fuxi made a piano to prevent evil and lust, to prevent lust in his heart, to cultivate one's rationality, and to reverse his innocence." "Song History·Lezhi": "Fuxi made a piano with five strings, and Shennong made a piano with seven strings." Huan Tan's "New Theory·Qindao" article says: "The Qin Shennong made a piano, and the words of the qin were prohibited, and gentlemen kept it to themselves. Shennong made a piano. In the past, Shennong followed Fuxi and ruled the world, looked at the law from the sky, and learned from the earth, so he began to cut the tung zither into the zither, practiced silk as strings, to communicate the virtues of gods and combine the harmony of heaven and earth. Shennong made a piano with seven strings, which was enough to understand all things and examine the rationality and chaos." Therefore, Fuxi, Shennong made a piano, and Zhou Gong made rituals and music. The ancient sage kings used "virtue" to educate the people, and followed the way of heaven and people's hearts.

In ancient times, those who governed the country used music as a means to reward their subordinates. Through different forms of music, singing and dancing, they could see their achievements in governing the people, which showed that the ancients attached great importance to the educational role of music. In the "Music Records: The Piano Song" recorded: "In the past, Shun made a five-string zither to sing "Nanfeng". Kui first created music to appreciate the princes. Therefore, the emperor was happy to appreciate the princes who had virtue. The virtue was strong and the teaching was respected. The grains were ripe at the time, and then they appreciated them with joy. Therefore, those who governed the people were tired of their dances were far away; those who governed the people were elegant, their dances were short. Therefore, they watched their dances and knew their virtues, and heard their posthumously known their actions."

In addition, there is a passage in "Records of the Grand Historian: Book of Music": "All sounds are connected to people's hearts, and the sky is connected to people, like the pictograms of scenery and the sounds of sounds. Therefore, those who do good will repay them with blessings, and those who do evil will receive disasters. This is natural. Therefore, Shun plays the zither of the five strings, sings the poem of the south wind, and the world governs the world... The poem of the south wind is the sound of growth. Shun likes it, and enjoys the same as the heaven and the earth, and gets the world's governance? "

There are also relevant records in "Records of the Grand Historian: Tian Jingzhong Wan's Family". Zuo Ji used the zither to see King Wei of Qi, and was highly valued by King Wei of Qi. Zuo Ji was given the courtesy of "receiving the seal of the emperor for three months and being sealed in Xia Pi for one year". When Zuo Ji met King Wei of Qi, he used the four seasons and government orders as a metaphor. The way to govern the country was all in the idea of ​​guqin's moral education. This paragraph of "Records of the Grand Historian" writes "... Therefore, it is said that the tone of the qin governs the world, and the rule of the country and the people are nothing like the five sounds." From this we can see that Zuo Ji used the guqin metaphor to teach the people's thoughts with "virtue", and from the individual's self-cultivation to cultivate one's character, it is to the method of governing the world.

There is a passage in "Book of Rites: Music" that explains that the important measures to achieve the "kingdom of the king" must be based on rituals and music education, supplemented by criminal laws and government orders. "Etiquette is polite and music to harmonize the people's voices, government is carried out, and punishment is prevented. Etiquette, music, punishment, and government are all perfect without contradicting them, and then the king's way is ready."

"The Book of Rites: Music" talks about: "Virtue is the end of nature, and music is the luster of virtue;" Virtue is human nature, and joy is the brilliance of virtue. In this way, music is communicated with moral character, etc.

Huan Tan's "New Theory: Qin Dao": "The seven silks of the zither are enough to understand all things and learn from chaos. Among the eight sounds, the strings are the best, and the zither is the first. The words of the zither are forbidden, and the gentleman keeps himself in banishing himself. The loud sound does not flutter and flows, and the soft sound does not disappear without hearing. The eight sounds are vast and the zither virtue is the best."
Chapter completed!