Expanding knowledge-ancient music
Before China entered the semi-feudal and semi-colonial society in 1 and 1840, the music was generally called China ancient music, including primitive social music, slave social music and feudal social music (475- 1840 BC).
2. Ancient Chinese poetry is indistinguishable, that is, literature is closely related to music. The poems in The Book of Songs, the earliest extant collection of poems in China, are accompanied by tunes and sung orally.
This tradition continues all the time. For example, the integrated official poem of the Han Dynasty was called "Han Yuefu", and Tang poetry and Song poetry could also be sung at that time.
4. Even today, there are pop musicians who compose and sing ancient poems, such as Shui Diao written by Su Shi about Mid-Autumn Festival and Thoughts on Quiet Night written by Li Bai.
In ancient China, musicians were despised, unlike painters, because China's calligraphy and painting were closely related, and painters belonged to the literati class. In the Song Dynasty, they could even become "examiners in painting" (in fact, this is also because of Song Huizong's personal extreme interest in painting).
6. Musicians have a low status and are only "actors" of aristocratic entertainment. Li Guinian, a famous singer in the Tang Dynasty, also had no political status. Now people know him because he often appears in Tang poetry and is praised by people.