Confucius is one of the most influential cultural celebrities in Chinese history. As the founder of Confucianism, a great thinker and educator, he often gives people the impression of a rigid, serious and meticulous old scholar. image. In fact, this ""old scholar" not only has an interesting soul, but also has a very elegant artistic aesthetic and is a senior music lover. Like Confucius, how did Confucius become associated with music? This depends on his idol. Starting. Confucius' idol is also a cultural celebrity, the famous Duke of Zhou. Duke Zhou is the younger brother of King Wu of Zhou and the uncle of King Cheng of Zhou. After King Wu died, King Cheng was still young, so Duke Zhou assisted him as regent. During the reign of Duke Zhou, a series of systems were formulated to consolidate the rule of the Zhou royal family. The ritual and music system was one of them. In the Zhou Dynasty, the statue of Duke Zhou was required for everything from national sacrifices and conquests to various banquets in the palace. There is corresponding ritual music. The ritual music system established by Duke Zhou stipulates what types of music should be used on what occasions, and what standards of music should be enjoyed by nobles of certain status. The ritual music system not only regulates the hierarchy of the Western Zhou aristocrats. The aesthetics of music played a role in enlightenment and had a great influence in history. China's reputation as a "land of rituals and music" originated from this. The state of Lu where Confucius lived was the fiefdom of Boqin, the eldest son of Duke Zhou, where a large number of Confucius, who was immersed in the traditional culture of the Zhou Dynasty, was fond of etiquette when he was young. He set up various sacrificial vessels and imitated the ritual movements in sacrifices since he was a child. Later, he went to Luoyang, the capital of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, to learn etiquette and music in person, and gained a better understanding of it. With the profoundness of the ritual and music system, I was filled with admiration and yearning for the culture of the Western Zhou Dynasty. In the era when Confucius lived, the Zhou royal family no longer had the splendor of the Duke of Zhou era, nor did it have the power to lead and call upon the vassal states, which symbolized the royal family. The majestic etiquette and music system was naturally destroyed. However, Confucius still compiled a large number of classics from the Western Zhou Dynasty and educated his disciples with "Poems", "Books", "Li" and "Music". "Etiquette is achieved through music" is why Confucius regarded music as a sign that a person truly became a gentleman. When Confucius compiled the "Book of Songs", he deleted the repetitive ones, retained those that were in line with etiquette, and sung each song with strings. , making them in line with the elegant style advocated by Western Zhou ritual music. It can be seen that Confucius not only advocated elegant music, but also practiced music to cultivate the body and mind.