Our lives are inseparable from music, but who invented music? There have been many opinions about the answer to this question over thousands of years.

Some people say that music was created by God. There was a philosopher in ancient Greece, Labato, who believed that musicians are "just the spokespersons of gods." There is a muse in the sky who is in charge of music and poetry. She attaches herself to musicians, inspires them, and calls them to create, so music exists in the world. The ancient Chinese book "The Classic of Mountains and Seas: The Classic of the Wilderness" says that Xia Houqi, the son of Xia Yu, was a half-human and half-god hero. The Emperor of Heaven respected him very much and often invited him to heaven for banquets. At each banquet, he would perform Tianle music to entertain him. . Tianle was so beautiful that Xia Houqi secretly wrote it down and brought it back to the world. Thus, music appeared in the world.

Some people say that music originated from imitation. The ancient Greek philosopher Democritus said: "We learned to weave and sew from spiders; we learned to build houses from swallows; we learned to sing from singing birds such as swans and orioles." This is also said in ancient my country. , the book "Lu's Spring and Autumn Period Ancient Music" says that music originated from "listening to the cry of the phoenix" and "imitating the sounds of the eight winds".

Some people say that music originated from games. British philosopher Spencer believed that humans are higher animals, different from other lower animals. Lower animals have to devote all their energy to maintaining and extending life, while humans have excess energy in addition to maintaining and extending life, so they create music in the game.

So who created the art of music? The famous Chinese musician Yang Yinliu said in his book "History of Ancient Chinese Music" written by Yang Yinliu: "Music originated from labor." This answer is completely consistent with Marx's aesthetic assertion that "labor creates beauty." Engels said: "It is only through labor... that the human hand has reached such a high degree of perfection that it produces, as if by magic, the paintings of Raphael, the sculptures of Thorvaldsson, and the sculptures of Pagani." Nigeria’s music.”

As early as two thousand years ago, some people in our country noticed that songs were the cry of labor. Liu An said in the book "Huainanzi": For people carrying big trees, the person in front shouts "Xiexu, Xiexu", and the people behind also follow up and shout. This is the labor of lifting heavy objects. The resulting song. Lu Xun, the great Chinese writer, said in "Wenwaiwentan": "Our ancestors, the primitive people, could not even speak. In order to cooperate with the labor, they had to express their opinions, and then gradually developed complex expressions. When it comes to sound, if everyone finds it difficult to lift the wood, and one of them calls out "Hangyu Hangyu," then this is creation..."

In general, music was not created by God. , but created by human beings, created and developed by human beings through labor.