In Duan Yucai's Notes on Explaining Words in Qing Dynasty, it was said: Feeling moves with things, so the shape is in sound. The sound corresponds, so it changes. It becomes a square, which means sound. Compared with the sound, it is fun. The voice said: the palace merchants seek feathers, and the voice is also good. Bamboo, stone, civil engineering, and good voice. The shovel was regarded as a scorpion, but the layman changed it. It's like a drum scorpion, (that is, the upper part of Xiao Zhuan music can't be typed). Big, small and medium? Two? Yes There are many musical instruments. There's only one like this. The sound of vernal equinox. Yiyue. Thunder came out of the ground to prepare for the future. The former king worshiped virtue for pleasure. It shows that he is obedient to wood. Also, Yu Bu said: , clock? That's right. Five corners were cut off. The ancient sound is in the second part.

In other words, the original meaning of music is "five tones and eight tones", that is, music, and "music" is its extended meaning, that is, the feeling of listening to music.

Only from the small series Yue can we best analyze its word-making methods. The upper part is a pictogram of drums, which are big and small, that is, the big circle in the middle is a drum and the small circle next to it is a drum. Below is "wood", which is a bell and drum platform, so it is pictographic.