| “Sui Shu”is appraised as one of most valuable official written Chinese history in “Twenty-Four Histories”.Dynasties of Liang,Chen,the Northern Zhou as well as Sui are all been stated in this book.Thereinto,content of “Sui Shu Music Records” of “Sui Shu” involved plenty of introduction of instruments,musical dance,musical composition and also ancient musical temperament etc.Concept of “Sui Shu Music Records” was the first time been introduced in “Sui Shu” to behalf its music part.Moreover,the dynastic history of “Yin Yue Zhi” has been written in annalistic style is obviously one of its features.Many historical music contents correspond to matching dynasty’s culture relics,stone inscriptions and frescoes that unearthed recently.In addition,it also demonstrates that “Sui Shu Music Records” accurately and completely record the music cultural of that period,and represents the distinction of great integration on music in Sui dynasty at the same time.Furthermore,“Sui Shu Music Records” also has significant influences to music culture development of later generations,especially in aspects of musical temperament and musical regulations,Tang’s Yan Music is a good example.At the same time,“Sui Shu Music Records” provides a large amount of valuable contents and evidences for later scholars to research on five dynasties music. |
