The so-called classics actually refer to the sum of western works from the Renaissance to the first 50 years of our time. The word "classical" in classical music is completely different from the word "classical period". Classical music is already a concept of cultural category. It is a part of mainstream western music and gradually means the whole world. Indeed, today, western classical music is like a skyscraper, surrounded by a large number of small houses with no influence. The gap between before and after makes western classical music synonymous with global mainstream music and even mainstream culture. The word classicism no longer represents time or history, but a cultural concept.

But no matter how powerful it is, because we are not the original culture of classical music, we can't blindly accept it. Personally, I think that something called music should have these characteristics: it has a beautiful or strange melody, it has lofty emotional power or the ability to hide mysterious emotions, it brings pleasure or causes thinking. I call it music or classical music (different from pop music or modern music) if it can meet these characteristics. So, I like classical music because of the melody and emotion. When I began to pay attention to classical music more than ten years ago, I was attracted by Tchaikovsky's Slavic March and began to like classical music. After listening to it intermittently, it has not been systematized until now. But as classical music, it is more difficult to understand its general situation, because we are all amateurs, and non-professionals spend time enjoying it like that. Classical music is music that needs some "training" to appreciate. This kind of training includes the principle of music, musical instruments, the history of music development, the writer himself, and even the conductor of the performing artist.

Classical music originated from the needs of early religion. Before the Renaissance, music mainly came from the church, such as Santigregori's chants. In other words, the earliest form of music was "vocal music". Why vocal music? Because the voice from people is the most primitive and moving voice in the world, and it is also the best "music". Of course, instrumental music had not yet developed in those days. In fact, listening to the chorus of Parker Strina's hymns in the Renaissance still has lasting charm. If you listen to classical or romantic works for a long time, try listening to his works. Religious music comes from the hands of these devout believers in those days, which is simpler and more emotional. It has a great influence on later generations, which is reflected in the great works of later generations (such as Handel's Your Messiah, Bach's Your Messiah in B minor, Beethoven's Solemn Your Messiah, Berlioz's Elijah, and modern Brittany's Requiem for War). Understanding the source of classical music is equivalent to understanding the most basic characteristics of music (or the most basic "hardware"), that is, having beautiful melodies and lofty emotions. Without these elements, even the greatest works are not what I need. Of course, without melody and emotion, there is no great work. In other words, the melody is generalized, and the music of the Renaissance is almost "invisible to the melody", only the rhythm.

From the Slavic March to the Pilgent Suite by Grieg, and then to the Fuwata River in Bedrich Smetana, I fully felt the beauty of music. I still don't know where they came from, who they are, or even the names of their works. I fell in love with these melodious works long before I was moved by the shells 3, 5 and 9 which were more "popular" than them.