Category: Culture/Art >> Instrumental Music/Vocal Music

Analysis:

Yes. Confucius was proficient in the six arts.

Confucius, whose name was Qiu and courtesy name Zhongni, was from the state of Lu (now Qufu, Shandong). He was born in 551 BC and died in 479 BC.

Confucius loved music, studied music, and also paid attention to music education. Among the six arts he taught, music ranked second. A person's cultivation begins with poetry and is perfected with music, which shows that he attaches great importance to music. He integrated music education into aesthetic education, and can be said to be the first person to advocate and implement "aesthetic education" in our country.

Confucius once studied piano with Shi Xiang. According to "Han Shi Wai Zhuan", when Confucius visited the Wei Kingdom, he met his old friend Shi Xiang. Shi Xiang was a famous piano master and was in the palace of the Wei Kingdom at that time. Confucius learned the piano from him.

Confucius played the piano and sang almost every day in his life, unless he was particularly sad. Even when he was trapped in the wilderness of Chencai, he still played the piano and sang. Whenever he heard someone singing a good song, After singing, he would ask someone to sing again, and he followed suit. Until seven days before his death, he sang a song to Zigong with tears in his eyes: "Is Mount Tai bad? Are the beams broken? Are the philosophers withered?"

Confucius is a well-deserved music educator. He played the piano and sang throughout his life. As for his skills, there are no historical records. Later generations have different opinions on whether he could compose music. There are existing piano music "Guishan Cao" and "Jianggui Cao" , and "Yi Lan Cao" are all said to be his works in the interpretation of biographies.