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Why is it said that "music originated from labor"?

The long and primitive music activities created early human music culture and human civilization. According to "Lu's Spring and Autumn Annals", it is said that in a clan named Getian, there is a collective song and dance. The songs sung include "Zai Min", "Xuan Niao", "Sui Cao Ben" and "Fen Wugu" , "Reverence to Heaven", "Dadi Gong", "Yidi De", "The Ultimate of Total Beasts" and other eight series. It expresses the wishes and mood of the ancestors to wish for a bountiful harvest, pray for lush pasture and prosperous livestock reproduction, praise the merits of heaven and earth, pay attention to climate and soil, and worship ancestors and totems. The function of music has been put to good use in the long-term production and labor practice of mankind, so later generations have this saying: "Music originated from labor.