Tao Yuanming is fascinated by music and has high literacy. He claimed to be a "lesser learner of qin and calligraphy" ("Yu Ziyan et al."), and he placed equal emphasis on qin and calligraphy, which can often be seen in his poems and essays, such as "taking a break from socializing and leisurely business, lying down to play the qin" ( "He Guo Zhubu"), "When I am weak, I send my affairs to others, but my feelings are written on the qin" ("The Beginning of Zhenjun Joining the Army Sutra A Zuo"), "There are qins and books, carrying bombs and chanting" ("Answering Pang Joining the Army") "), "Music, Qin, and books are used to soothe worries" ("Come Back and Come Back"), "Happy with plain slippers, harmonized with seven strings" ("Self-Sacrifice Essay"), Yan Yanzhi also said that he "put wine on the stringed Qin", which shows that music is He had developed a hobby since childhood, and he still maintained a strong interest in music in the "Self-Commentary" he wrote when he was dying. Xiao Tong said that Tao Yuanming "didn't understand the music, but kept a stringless harp. Every time he drank wine, he often played with it to convey his meaning." About Tao Yuanming's playing of the stringless harp, there are records in "Book of Song" and "Book of Jin" The record is very similar to Xiao Tong's statement, "Book of Jin." "Tao Qian's Biography" records: "I have a stringless qin with no string emblems. Every time I have a drinking party, I will caress each other and say: "If you know the fun in the qin, why bother to play the strings?" It seems that Tao Yuanming likes it. Music is certain. But what is the meaning of a stringless qin? According to the "Book of Jin", it is a qin without strings and pillars, and of course it cannot produce any music. I don’t know how to understand the rhythm? This actually means that Tao Yuanming loved music very much, and he "played and sang", and it was clearly written in "Zi Jie Wen" that "he seven-stringed plain Qin" can be said to be Tao Yuanming. Don't understand the temperament? It just shows that what Tao Yuanming values ????is the emotional cultivation of music and the pursuit of emotions, rather than the discussion of the theory of temperament and the in-depth study of sounds and chords. Tao Yuanming is not good at studying music theory. This is just like Tao Yuanming who "loves reading and does not seek deep explanations". He only pursues the essence of the book and the interest in music, and does not care much about the trivial and subtle theories. Tao Yuanming was just enjoying himself. Tao Yuanming himself clearly wrote in the article "He Qin with Seven Strings". It should be said that he was not always playing with the "Qin without Strings"! According to my guess, it was an accidental get-together with friends and he was full of wine. On this occasion, I took off the qin to play, only to find that the strings were broken, so I improvised and played the qin with missing strings, which became a good story. Interesting, there is a poem about how the strings are strung up. Because there is no record of a stringless qin in Tao Yuanming's own poems about playing the qin, and Xiao Tong lived more than a hundred years ago from Tao Yuanming's time, so it is not all reliable. We would rather believe Tao Yuanming's own account, which is more illustrative of the problem. Of course, Xiao Tong's account is not groundless. It is probably an accidental meeting of friends as mentioned above. The interest was high and he took off the piano to find out. There are no strings and emblems, so in order not to spoil everyone's interest, I have to play with it. What is pursued here is no longer the beauty of the instrument itself, but the focus is on the joy of the instrument. If this interest in the instrument is based on the aesthetic subject. If the will to express the natural spirituality and aesthetic experience, the strings and pillars are nothing more than a form, a carrier, but not important. This is the application of the "delightful forgetting" theory that was popular in the Wei and Jin Dynasties in music. Based on this, we can add the following: "The person who listens to the harpoon thinks it is a fish, and catches the fish and forgets the harpoon; the person who plays the harp is because it is a rabbit, and he catches the rabbit and forgets the hooves; the person who speaks cares about it, and he is so proud that he forgets the words": "The person who plays the harp is so Focus on the sound, get the sound and forget the piano. "In fact, it embodies Laozi's ideological proposition of "great music and beautiful sound". Music that is truly beautiful and fully embodies the ideal taste of the aesthetic subject cannot necessarily be expressed. It is the sound of nature and the sound of nature. Tao Yuanming A personalized development based on the "big sound and sound" is a legend of stringless music. Of course, Tao Yuanming's emphasis on natural sounds was inspired by his grandfather Meng Jia's opinion: "Listening to a prostitute, silk is not as good as bamboo." ; Bamboo is not as good as meat, so the answer is: "Asymptotically approaching nature.'" ("The Biography of Shi Mengfujun, the General of the Former Jin Dynasty in the Expedition to the West") The silk and bamboo here refer to musical instruments, and meat, of course, is the sound made by people. It is very natural. He believes that the beauty of natural sounds is the highest state. As Tao Yuanming's close friend, he deeply understood the three flavors. Why not sing in the box? If the sound is on your finger, why not listen to it on your finger?" Tao and Su did not have the same views on music, but they pursued the joy of music and the natural harmony in sound. It's quite fitting.