The Music Thought Of Pre - Qin Music And Its Contemporary Enlightenment

Culture is the nation’s blood, it is the people’s spiritual home. Promoting the Chinese culture,constructing the harmonious culture, satisfying the people’s growing spiritual and cultural needs,giving full play the culture’s guiding to the society, educating the people, and improving thepeople’s moral sense of responsibility and social cohesion, are the demand for the developmentof the socialist harmonious society. Music as a part of culture, is an art for people to express theirfeelings and reflect the real life. The process of its creation and appreciation is the process ofaffective communication and experience, is also the creator’s and appreciator’s emotion blendmutually, which lead to the process of resonance. Music, relying on the human activities, andtrying to promote the people’s own perfect, archaism said "touching the heart, the emotion is thefirst", the ethical "gushing" music has vital significance of people’s social life and one’s ownmoral sense ascension.Entered the21st century, with the rapid economic development and the rich material, peopleare pursuing the spiritual enjoyment than ever, but the original form of traditional music has beenunable to meet the emotional needs of the modern people, which makes some music with adecadent ideas and reflecting the vulgar emotions enter, they influence people’s values andmorals. Part of music workers’ mercenary, they abandoned the social responsibility,which theoutstanding musicians should have, created some do not conform to the mainstream of the socialvalues, and meet to the indecent needs, then make the current music works appear the situationof fire mixed, seriously impact on the improvement of quality of the people and the developmentof society and culture. How to change the status quo, pre-Qin music ethics are worthy to ourreference and study.The pre-Qin period, in the field of ideology, there are a lot of thoughts and exponents,competing schools of thought contend, and music as an important part of social life, the pre-Qinperiod music also improve itself. There are Confucian school, represented by Confucius,Mencius and Xunzi’s, confirmed that it had a positive role in governing the nation; Mozi,sympathized with the working people, attended to national political safety and put forward the"non-music" thought; and Taoist ideas represented by Laozi and Zhuangzi put forward the "oligomusic" thought and so on.Yet both advocating actively engaged in music activities, andcanceling the music activities, were out of respect for "rule", and did not leave the same startingpoint. The music aesthetic thoughts of schools’ debating, laid foundation of a long feudal societyin the future music ethics, also verified the social significance of music art, it had an importantinfluence for the contemporary people’s thought, behavior and social development played.