Humans perceive the external world through five senses: vision, hearing, smell, touch, and taste, and the efficiency of perception is decreasing. Human beings can perceive the world as fast as the speed of light through vision, and feel the magnificence, beauty and bloodiness of the world. You can also sense in advance through hearing whether the external world is day or night, dangerous or safe.

Humans are animals, so other animals are no exception, and they also have five senses. Just like our domestic Wangcai, when the owner comes home, it happily wag its tail and follow the owner's legs, because in its memory, this person is very good to it. At night, the master was walking home. Wangcai greeted him at the door with drooling words. Why? Because it heard the footsteps of its master, it remembered that the footsteps would bring good luck to it and bring him food. Even the simple sound of footsteps can evoke the excitement of wealth.

I once saw such a story. An African man has hummed a few lines of a song every time he picked up a Chinese passenger for the past 20 years, just to get people to help him find out the name of the song. It wasn't until I met a Taiwanese couple that I finally learned the name of the song "Love Song 1990" "Sky black eyes and your smiling face..." The melody sounded again and the boy cried... It turned out that in 1993, This African boy and his mother got a tape. His mother loved the Chinese song in it. Later, his mother passed away. The boy wanted to find this song because he missed his mother. Therefore, my brother will cry every time he hears this song. The song arouses his emotions of sadness and happiness.

Humans are animals with memories. Everything you have seen visually will be stored in your brain, and the next time you see it, you will recall it from your brain: when, where, with whom, what you did, whether it was dangerous, happy, Beautiful, ugly…. The auditory circuit also stores memories in this way. And memory carries a series of emotional changes, so certain pictures, sounds, etc. will be remembered in our minds along with the emotions at that time. When we see similar pictures or hear similar sounds again, we will directly evoke the emotions in our memory, whether we cry or laugh, be happy or sad. Just like we will be happy when we see a beautiful woman, we will be scared when we see a snake, we will be frightened when we see a dog, we will be happy when we see someone we haven’t seen for a long time... When we hear thunder and rain, we will have sad emotions, association I remember something about a thunderstorm night in history; when I hear a popular song, I think of a hair salon on the street where I was very happy or melancholy in the past and this song was played at that time; when I heard " "Dong dong dong" knocking on the door is like opening QQ happily to see if the person you are looking forward to appears.

For example, every time I listen to the music "Silence of the Night Sky" by Zhao Haiyang, I will have a sad mood, and the interpretation of the old movie "Inkstone" can be heard in my ears. Why? Because when I watched the interpretation of the movie "Inkstone", I was very involved. The plot of the movie aroused my emotions, and these emotions were merged with the simultaneous notes of "The Silence of the Night Sky", so every time I hear this music It would arouse my mood at that time.

Over the tens of thousands of years of human history, certain sounds have been memorized in our genes and can become emotional genes. Human beings have established connections with the good and bad of things through sound signals, and trigger emotional changes. When certain core melodies appear in music, it will arouse people's emotions. Fast-paced music can make people nervous; soothing music can make people relaxed and happy. ; The shouts will shock the soul; the chirping of insects and birds will make people happy, etc. Therefore, there are certain iconic melody symbols in good music. These symbols are recognizable and easier for people to associate and remember, and to mobilize emotional genes.

Finally, from the perspective of music creation, artists express their emotions through music and also achieve the effect of resonating with the audience's emotions through music. Therefore, I think the criteria for good music are: clear rhythm, novel melody and emotional resonance. For example, the form of a chorus enhances the volume and sound field, looks and sounds more powerful, and is more likely to arouse the audience's emotional response, thereby creating a sense of belonging, security, and happiness.

How are these forms different from the emotional resonance of a group of people in ancient times shouting together to resist foreign enemies and singing together to celebrate victory?

Therefore, music can move people because it arouses the emotional memory of the audience.