The Role Of Confucius' Musical Aesthetics In The Construction Of Contemporary Personality

As the founder of Confucian school, Confucius not only has unique insights on politicalmanagement, education, but also has high attainments in music. He is good at applying music togovernance, education, enlightenment, and forms the music aesthetic thought of "combination ofbeauty and good""Joyous but not indecent, mournful but not distressing""succeeding on music".The music esthetic thought of Confucius has its profound ideological sources and philosophicalfoundation."The combination of beauty and good" originates from Confucius’ pursuit of "Rites"and "Benevolence""Joyous but not indecent, mournful but not distressing" is the embodiment ofthe idea in the field of art.This article obtains from the overall Confucian thought system to explore the uniqueinsights about the music aesthetic thought of Confucius in the moral construction, perfectpersonality, etc, adopting the method of document, using the perspective of literary sociology,focus on Confucius music aesthetic thought’s personality construction of contemporary society,in general appears the present Confucius music esthetic thought, and explores its role and valueof contemporary personality construction.The introduction part briefly introduces the selected topic significance, the present researchsituation and research methods. First chapter combines with previous results, the research andviewpoints of music aesthetics of Confucius, elaborates Confucius’ music aesthetic thought of"combination of beauty and good""Joyous but not indecent, mournful but not distressing""succeeding on music", focusing on the analysis of the combination of music art and convey thethought value, the doctrine of the mean thought about music in content and form of "moderate",and the education function of "succeeding on music". The second chapter proceeds from"Include benevolence in the music " and "unity of language", and the interpretation of thedoctrine of the mean thought, analyzes Confucius music aesthetic connotation and uniquetheory foundation. The third chapter explores the music aesthetic thought of Confucius oncontemporary personality construct role, on the basis of Confucius music esthetic thoughtenlightenment, analyzes the the phenomenon and reason of contemporary moral landslide, thepersonality defect, elaborates Confucius music aesthetic enlightenment and effect of personalityconstruction. Epilogue part points out the significance of the music aesthetic thought ofConfucius on building up the spirit of contemporary society and future research prospects.