Abstract:
The thoughts of music in Master Lü’s Spring and Autumn Annuals showed the transition of a particular era in Chinese history, so it is significant to aesthetic history to deeply investigate these thoughts of music. In terms of literal texts, they should have been borrowed mainly from the preQin Confucian theory of music represented by The Records of Music, but far from this was its complex ideology. Master Lü’s Spring and Autumn Annuals contained two different theories of music composition: “Music rises in mind” and “Music grows out of Tao”. Meanwhile the morality expressed in its theory of music (recognition of “morals”) went astray from the general trend of the work. However, it thoroughly fused the Confucian and Taoist theoretical systems of music as regards the relationship between “human music” and “natural music”.
