《Chou Rite》 On Music Officials

The 22, classes of Yueguan in Chou Rite is a big problem in the history of Chinese ancient music. There are manyscholars who concerned about this question; however, still a lot of doubtful points have not been settled. In this paper, the author starts with shi analyscs of cultural background of pre-Qin Dynasty. Heaffirms the viewpoint of some scholars, which is Chou Rite, is the blueprint of governing country as a result of the Confucian statesmen in the late time of Zhouguo times subjective construction on the base of referring the official system of West Chou Dynasty. Although it does not fully reflect the real situation of officials in West Chou Dynasty, it still records treasure history of official system of West Chou Dynasty. In the author's opinion, Yueguan in Chou Rite can not fully reflect the musical official system of west Chou Dynasty, though it does be the part of the bequesth of West Chou Dynasty musical construction. It is very important for us to study the music development of West Chou and Pre-Qin Dynasty. This paper consists of 5 sections. Section 1, Introduction, demonstrates the significance of this subject, lists situation of study and referring of documents, points out the problems this paper going to settle. Section 2, The names and system of West Chou's Musical Construction. Section 3, Analyses of Yueguan: Deeply analyzing the 22 classes of Yuegyuan in Chuguan Zongbo, and Diguan Situ. Section 4, Functions of Yueguan. Classifying and finding the major functions of Yueguan on the base of deep analyses of Yueguan. Section 5, Conclusion, summaries the significances and fruit of the study. The Yueguan in Chou Rite forms not only a complete organization of musicians, but also prescripts people's behaviors, ethics, custon and many other respects.It also influences the following social life more or less. The review on Yueguan helps us to learn about the social culture and national ritual music's feature.