People in ancient times would also hum songs when they had nothing to do, because music theory and some folk music already existed in ancient times! It's just that ancient music is not very mature. At least ancient music is not very logical or sequential. It is just a kind of casual humming.
People in ancient times could hum songs
For modern people, listening to songs is a common thing. Many people can cultivate their sentiments and make themselves happy, and even many people People regard listening to music as a career, and many people also regard singing as a career, just like some singing stars we have seen. But in ancient times, songs that also existed also had experience and humming. The saying of the song! But this also proves that ancient people could indeed sing and had a certain fondness for music.
Qu Yuan's Lisao
In fact, when it comes to Qu Yuan's Lisao, most people will think that it is a collection of poems, but in fact Qu Yuan's Lisao is also a collection of songs. In other words, Qu Yuan's Lisao In the earliest days, Li Sao was sung, not protruding, so in ancient times there was still a saying of humming, and most of the songs sung horizontally were collected from the folk, and folk music also became an ancient style!
Ancient Music
Ancient music probably comes from two directions, one is from the folk, the other is from the court, and the folk are mainly folk songs, as we are familiar with Some folk songs sung in "Avenue of Stars", Abao became popular because of folk songs. Similarly, in ancient times, some ancient literati, some ancient poets and poets were often the sources of these music, as well as some in the court Mingren, that is, some women live in the court all year round, and then perform songs and dances for the king and ministers!