The Characteristics Of Mount Wutai Buddhist Music And Its Application In The Qing Temple

Religious music, folk music, scholar music and palace music together constitute the traditional music of our country. It has been almost two thousand years since Buddhist music was introduced into China at Han dynasty. Buddhist music, which has been mixing with Confucian and Taoist culture over a long time, has become an important part of Chinese traditional music.Wutai Mountain is one of the four famous Buddhist Mountains in China and the Buddhist music is Very famous. It tunes is numerous, forms is diverse and has great impact on the formation and development of the northern Chinese Buddhist music.Based on multiple collect folk songs, present thesis focuses on how Buddhist music has been used in the Qing Temple Buddhist ceremony activities. The study has combed the overview of Wutai Mountain Buddhist music from microscopies to macrocosmic, and made a detailed interpretation of its type, scale, mode, melody structure and so on.Buddhist music is usually a Buddhist ceremony as the carrier, the two complement each other and inseparable.The Fan YanKou ritual is a memorial ceremony to worship the dead in Buddhist, which has comprehensive content and involves many tunes with large-scale usage of vocal music and instrumental music, etc.The chapter focuses on the music of the Fan Yankou ritual in the Shu Xiang temple,records and particularly analyses the music using and the flow of the Fan Yankou ritual,and summarizes the feature and cultural characteristics of the Wutai Mountain Buddhism music. Finally the foothold of the thesis lays on the inheritance and protection of nonmaterial cultural heritage and the excavation of the social value, analyses and summaries the developable way of the Wutai Mountain Buddhism music.Buddhist music, with great compassion and sympathy, is so sacred and holly. It worth to in-depth explores and protects the artistic value of the Buddhist music.