The music enlightenment thought in Yue Ji;
Yue Ji believes that music can express people's inner world and reflect social atmosphere, so music is closely related to people's temperament, personality, temperament and even the whole social atmosphere. Confucianism advocates the educational function of music from the perspective of governing people's hearts.
On the one hand, the enlightenment function of music is that music should cooperate with political, social, ethical and ethical education to serve the rulers' civil and military affairs, that is, "courtesy should be based on ambition, music should be based on sound, politics should be based on action, and punishment should be imposed to prevent its treachery."
Music educates people and, by extension, constructs the culture of human society. Music is of great significance to the cultivation of human virtues and the promotion and development of social customs.
The idea of "harmony" in Yue Ji;
The idea of "harmony" in Yue Ji was put forward on the basis of "harmony". "Harmony" is an important spirit of traditional Confucianism in China, such as "harmony between heaven and earth" and "harmony between home and everything". The so-called "harmony" here means "harmonizing all beings" and making "music harmonious".
On the one hand, Yue Ji pays attention to the humanistic spirit and social strength of music, on the other hand, it also emphasizes that music should be "harmonious" with the growth of all things in the world and the laws of the four seasons.
"Yue Hua Pian" wrote: "In the boudoir, if father and son listen together, they are close." "In the ancestral hall, if the monarch and the minister listen together, they will be respectful."