My View on Confucius’ Musical Aesthetics
Abstract
During the Spring and Autumn Period and Warring States Period, the ideology environment was severe. Hundreds of scholars competed and argued, and they all used their own musical concepts and aesthetic consciousness to influence social life. Confucius was one of them. As we all know, Confucius was the great pre-Qin period thinker, politician, and educator of etiquette and music. His achievements in music aesthetics are different from other schools of “contend of a hundred schools of thought”. Confucius’s aesthetic thoughts are actually the aesthetic thoughts he formed in the practice of ritual and music education. This article discusses his musical spirit, the aesthetic propositions of “benevolence”, “perfect perfection”, “neutrality”, and music education.
Keywords
Confucius; benevolence; goodness and beauty; neutralization
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[1] Xiu Hailin’s “Ancient Chinese Music Aesthetics” Chapter 6, The Aesthetic Consciousness of the Scholars in the Pre-Qin Period, Fujian Education Press, the first edition in December 2014.
[2] Cai Zhongde, “The History of Chinese Music Aesthetics”, Pre-Qin Part, The Analects, p.69, p.70, People’s Music Publishing House, 2nd edition in March 2004.
[3] Wang Hongjian, “Introduction to Art”, Chapter 4, Art Creation Theory, About Artist’s Aesthetic Creativity, Page 216-220, Culture and Art Publishing House, October 2010, first edition.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.18282/le.v9i7.1473
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