Research On Qing Imperial Court Auspicious Ritual Music

This paper used the Qing Dynasty Imperial court ritual music system as the startingpoint, focused on the specific contents of the Qing Dynasty Imperial court ritual music,and then explored the characteristics of the Qing Dynasty Imperial court ritual music.Firstly, the exploration of the traditional ritual music explained the profound meaningof both rites and music: the conclusions are as follows “Ritual is a kind of norm”,“Musicis the expression of human emotions”. The paper explored from the aesthetic perspectiveof the ritual music culture construction and the ritual culture found out that the aestheticperspective of the ritual music culture is due to the pursuit of harmony, but the aesthetic inthe ritual music represents harmony between sounds, harmony between men, andharmony between heaven and man.Secondly, it is about the exploration of the Qing Dynasty Imperial court ritual musicculture. In the Qing imperial shamanic ritual music the melody of God’s song has theoriginal hearing aesthetic tendencies; its artistic expression methods with God drumrhythm is a way to contribute to the harmony between music and man. And the Shamandivine words and ritual activities are designed to achieve the realm in which God and mancan find the perfect harmony in the music atmosphere. On the other hand, in the Qingimperial palace Shao music system and in the context of glorious music and its bandpractice as well as the inherent meaning, possess the characteristics of the "eight soundsharmony" internal and external harmony; their a word a sound play, the characteristics ofconcert under specific ritual context, can fit with man’s psychology; as a result canachieve the harmony between music and man; can eventually reach the music realm ofheaven and man’s harmony through the display of music and dance.Thirdly, it is about the exploration of the characteristics of the Qing imperial courtritual music culture. This paper found out that the Qing Imperial court auspicious ritualmusic possesses political and religious characteristics, as well as highlights andcompatibility of cultural characteristics. Besides it analyzed the causes of thecharacteristics of the Qing Imperial court auspicious ritual music. Finally it reviewed andreflected on the achievements and drawbacks of the Qing Imperial court auspicious ritualmusic.