As a master of Confucian aesthetic thoughts in the pre-Qin period, Yue Ji has had a far-reaching influence on the development of Chinese classical music for more than two thousand years and occupies an important position in the history of world music thoughts.

Yue Ji emphasizes the use of "moral voice" to teach students, so that people's words and deeds meet the requirements of feudal ethics: "Therefore, listening to its elegant voice has a wide range of meanings; Hold it dry and grieve, learn to pitch and stretch, and have a good appearance; " To do what you want, you must have a rhythm, a proper March, and a proper advance and retreat. "The main task of music education is that music education assists moral education.

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Yue Ji inherits and develops Confucian thoughts on the characteristics of music, the role of music education and the relationship between content and form, beauty and goodness, ceremony and music since Confucius. This paper expounds the essence of music by telepathy, and discusses the influence of music on people's psychological activities such as emotion, personality and will.

New breakthroughs have been made in highlighting the political education and enlightenment function of music, emphasizing the social role of music in "cultivating one's morality and keeping the family in harmony, governing the country and leveling the world", paying equal attention to ceremony and music, and "before Wang Zhidao, ceremony and music were in full swing".

Its basic idea is clearer, richer, more specific, deeper and more systematic than the previous Confucian works. It is the most important and systematic treatise of China's ancient music education thought, and it is still brilliant.