In this era of information explosion, who hasn’t heard a few divine songs?

Whether you are walking on the street or turning on your mobile phone, as long as there is background music, we can enjoy the 3D surround effect every day.

For example, this 2019 super divine song, one, two, three, starts:

"The thunder is coming, I want to bring the thunder back to the dog bar in the middle of the night , Guess he is from the metal..."

Many people listened to this song and said that this song has been lingering for three days, making people forget about food and drink, feel uneasy, and find it difficult to sit still.

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And the more you want it to stop, the harder it sings.

From "Seaweed Dance" and "Learning to Meow" to the Northeast Cantonese-flavored "Wild Wolf Disco" and Douyin soft girl's "Datian Young Boy", these saliva songs are regarded as divine songs. , almost every song becomes a hit.

Is this song poisonous, or is there something wrong with me?

Why do we love the Divine Comedy so much?

Some songs you have obviously not listened to in their entirety, but they are like the magic of love spinning around in circles in your head.

“You are my little apple

I can never love you too much

Your red face warms my heart

The fire that lights up my life..."

"The vast horizon is my love

The flowers are blooming at the foot of the rolling green hills

What What kind of rhythm is the most swaying

What kind of singing is the most joyful..."

Why can't we stop singing the Divine Comedy?

Legend of the Phoenix

The Divine Comedy often uses the most catchy melody to stimulate the senses of the listener. Every time the dimension of sensory stimulation is increased, the pleasure will be doubled. .

So, listening to brainwashing music is like eating spicy food. The more you eat, the more you get addicted and you can’t control yourself at all.

But don’t worry, this is not a disease.

According to research, 98% of people have had the experience of being brainwashed by Divine Comedy. We are brainwashed by Divine Comedy at least once a week.

In addition, women are more likely to be brainwashed than men.

So, do you know why the aunts and grandmothers near you love square dancing?

Popular is not vulgar, let alone vulgar

During the Warring States Period, someone was singing in the city of Chu State. When he started singing "Lower Riba Man", there were as many as a thousand people in the audience singing along;

Later, "Yangling Plucking Wei" was sung, but only a few hundred people could sing along with it; when "Yangchun Baixue" was sung, only a few dozen people could sing along.

The phenomenon of "the music is great, the harmony is poor" has been around since ancient times. The more elegant an art form is, the smaller its audience will be. On the contrary, a popular and down-to-earth art form will naturally have a larger audience.

The threshold for pop songs is the lowest. There is no disparagement here. There are also many classic works in pop songs. The so-called "low threshold" refers to their popularity. They are popular because they are popular. It is inevitable.

However, popular is not vulgar, let alone vulgar.

If it is just catchy, it can be tolerated, but some Internet songs are so limitless that they vow to be the "most handsome guy" in the crowd.

Just pick out a few sentences to give everyone a taste:

Let’s learn to meow and meow, meow, meow, meow~ (it doesn’t sound wrong either)

Your smile is like a vicious dog, disturbing my heartstrings~ (The bottom line of ancient style is Where)

Looking at these lyrics, there is indeed a reason to be popular. After all, "literary literature seems to look at the mountains but not the plains." A three-eyed monster is always more eye-catching than a two-eyed passerby.

No wonder there is a hot word now called "appreciating ugliness". People who want to be unique and eye-catching gradually lose their bottom line and begin to regard ugliness as beauty and superficiality as beauty.

The scary thing is that there is still such a market for this kind of deformed aesthetic. It seems that the Chinese people’s music aesthetic has been replaced by low?

Regarding this phenomenon, some people think that it is because the Chinese people have not had musical ability since ancient times.

The ancient Chinese said that we will not bear this responsibility!

The musical gene of the Chinese people

In the 1980s, a batch of bone flutes were unearthed in Jiahu Village, Wuyang County, Henan Province. The earliest one is more than 9,000 years old, and Able to play a complete pentatonic scale.

It seems that China’s claim of a long history of 5,000 years is not accurate, because the Chinese people’s history of playing music can be traced back to 9,000 years ago.

During the Western Zhou Dynasty, Duke Zhou formulated the ritual and music system. From then on, music not only symbolized personal cultivation, but also embodied national etiquette. This is where China’s title of “the land of ritual and music” comes from.

Confucius regarded musical accomplishment as the highest criterion for measuring a gentleman. The founding kings of all dynasties would make the establishment of a ritual and music system one of their top priorities.

In addition to official ceremonial music, each era has its own unique musical style.

?The image of Confucius in film and television dramas

For example, music and dance in ancient times, elegant music in the Zhou Dynasty, and "The Sound of Zheng and Wei" in the Spring and Autumn Period; during the Qin, Han, Sui and Tang Dynasties, Baixi became popular again and song and dance songs; song lyrics and raps from the Song Dynasty; dramas and Sanqu from the Yuan Dynasty; secular ditties from the Ming and Qing Dynasties, etc.

For a civilization that values ??music so much, it seems too far-fetched to say that it has no musical talent since ancient times! In fact, we not only have musical cells, but we also use them to the extreme.

The classics of Chinese studies that we have memorized since childhood, such as the Book of Songs and Songs of Chu in the pre-Qin Dynasty, the Yuefu poems of the Han Dynasty, and the most popular Tang poetry, Song lyrics, and Yuan operas, are regarded by us as literary classics of all dynasties. form, at its inception, were songs.

Take the "Book of Songs" as an example. The "Book of Songs" is a collection of songs from the Western Zhou Dynasty to the Spring and Autumn Period. The "wind", "ya" and "song" in it are folk songs, court songs and sacrificial songs of the Zhou Dynasty respectively. song.

Confucius once said: "The chaos of "Guan Ju" is so overwhelming that it fills the ears!" This is to praise the climax of the song "Guan Ju" for its full sound, which seems to fill the ears.

During the Tang and Song Dynasties, the poems of literati were widely loved and sung by singers and musicians. Therefore, many literati had close contacts with musicians.

Bai Juyi's famous poem "Flowers are not flowers, mist is not mist" describes her candid relationship with the singer;

The image of Bai Juyi in film and television dramas

Du Fu's famous poem "The Year of Li Gui in the South of the Yangtze River" reflects the deep friendship between literati and musicians.

Because there was no way to preserve the sound in ancient times, these songs eventually became purely literary forms, and the famous lyricists only remained as literati.

In fact, the connection between ancient literati and music was not limited to songs!

Nowadays, guqin, chess, calligraphy and painting are often used to measure the cultural accomplishment of a literati. Why does the "four arts of literati" put the guqin first? Because in ancient times, it was emphasized that "scholars will not play the harp without reason", literati needed to use the neutral and peaceful sound of the guqin to cultivate their moral character and cultivate their sentiments.

During the Wei and Jin Dynasties, there were many typical literati qin players, such as Ji Kang, Ruan Ji, Cai Wenji, etc. Their representative qin music are "Guangling San", "Jiu Kuang" and "Hu Jia Eighteen Pai".

At the same time, even if Tao Yuanming didn't know the music, he would keep a "stringless harp" at home. Whenever he was drunk, he would take it out and caress it to express his feelings.

Where have the musical genes of our ancestors gone?

Strange, we have such a long musical history and such brilliant musical achievements, why is today’s music in decline?

Leave aside the mediocre online songs, even if there are some classic works, most of them copy the Western style, such as rock, rap, country, etc. that people love to hear and see, and rarely appear original. traditional style.

Nowadays, there are many people who admire foreign things and advocate that Western music should be like this, the staff should be like this, and the rhythm should be like this. In fact, we ourselves also have achievements in music scores and rhythms that we are proud of.

The earliest extant music score in my country is the Tang Dynasty’s hand-copied Nanliang script score "Jieshi Diao·Youlan". In other words, music score appeared in China at least during the Nanliang period (502-557). , the reduced-character notation tailor-made for Guqin by Cao Rou in the Tang Dynasty is still in use today.

As for the temperament, as early as the Spring and Autumn Period, the "Guanzi Diyuan Pian" has recorded the "three-point profit and loss law" that uses mathematical operations to find the rhythm.

Zhu Zaiyu, a royal nobleman of the Ming Dynasty and the ninth grandson of Zhu Yuanzhang, calculated the "Twelve Equal Temperaments" for the first time. What is the concept of this pioneering work in the field of music? To put it simply, without the "Twelve Equal Temperament", the emergence of the piano is just an unattainable dream.

Where did the musical genes of our ancestors go? Can the development of our own music only copy the West?

Of course, for the needs of one's own growth, it is understandable to learn from the excellence of Western music and develop our modern music, but we always have a misunderstanding about "modern" and always feel that "modern" It must be opposed to "tradition".

As a result, many young people began to isolate tradition or even abandon tradition. They felt that chanting fashionable rap made them look foreign and superior, regardless of cheap tunes and embarrassing lyrics.

In the final analysis, we are now a little lost due to the impact of foreign culture. We abandon tradition and blindly seek novelty. Over time, basic cultural literacy is lost, leaving only a bunch of weird empty shells.

Thousands of years ago, the pipa, erhu, and suona were also imported. However, the ancients integrated and innovated them based on the integration of their own national music traditions, and eventually developed from "outsiders" It has become a popular national musical instrument.

Innovation needs to be based on inheritance, especially the absorption of foreign culture. Innovation without tradition as a basis will inevitably fall into vulgarity.

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