Confucian theory of propriety and music in the PreQin days was humanistic and humanitarian. The Confician statement “Culture is carried by propriety and music“ actually emphasizes a civilized humanbased government for the people. The Confucian theory concerning the propriety mainly as a means to maintain social order and the music as an instrument to harmonize people’s minds enlightens us that the State and government of society ought to be both lawbased and moralbased and beautybased. Confucianism regards the integrity of propriety and music as the vision of heaven and men integrated as one, which instructs us as to how to build an ecologicalbalance and harmoniouslybeautiful world in which men are in harmony not only with men but also with nature.

Confucianist; theory of propriety and music; aesthetic theory