1. Function

is the norm to maintain the hierarchical concept of slavery, and it is also an important means for the slave owner class to consolidate its dominant position. The function of ceremony is to provide people with certain rules and order and to regulate people's behavior.

The function of music is to cultivate people's sentiment, and to achieve a harmonious and unified effect by combining people's behaviors (rituals) with realistic scenes. In other words, music can adjust people's nerves and mobilize people's awareness of regulating behavior.

II. Influence

The system of rites and music prevailed in China during the Shang and Zhou Dynasties, drawing lessons from the demise of the Shang Dynasty, opposing "lewd music" and adopting "saving music" measures. The implementation of the ritual music system consolidated the social status of the slave owner class and promoted the development of music. However, it makes music a vassal of ceremony, and makes music a model music centered on ceremony, and gradually tends to be rigid.

Extended information:

Nearly a thousand years from the Song Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty, it was a period for the continuous development of the ritual and music system until it died out with the disintegration of feudal society or was inherited by the changes of folk customs.

First of all, from the Song Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty, the Five Rites and their musical system continued after the finalization of the Sui and Tang Dynasties, and people constantly made new interpretations of this, such as the existence of works such as the Five Rites General Examination, which showed their recognition of the existing ideas.

The second point is about the change of percussion music in its development, that is, percussion music managed by the Propaganda Department under Taichang Temple in the Tang Dynasty was once returned to Jiaofang in the Song Dynasty, and then returned to Taichang management after a period of time. This is a change caused by the management organization, but it finally returned to Taichang, which shows that the nature of percussion music is still recognized as a ritual musician.

The third point is about the change of the drum-blowing music itself. During the Song and Jin Dynasties, a new wind-blowing instrument, which was handed down from the western regions, began to be widely used in advocacy bands. This is the suona called "Golden Squabble", "Surnai" and "Horn" in history books.

The appearance of this instrument enriches the leading instruments of advocacy bands, and on the basis of the existing combination of sheng, pipe and flute, it extends the juxtaposition of suona, sheng and flute.

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