The Original Meaning of Yueh

Philosophy and Culture 24 (8):791-798 (1997)
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Abstract

Here the word "music", referring to China's ancient civilization called the "music" of all things. Which has "the origin of music and things of God, witchcraft-related" as a potential problem before, but as a proposition which implicated the "author of mystery" problem for the text purpose, the myth, text and other materials with the shape of musical instruments to start on the ancient 'music' of exploration, and the author of music and music side is full of mystery manifested. The "Yueh" put forth here is the multifarious "Yueh" found in ancient Chinese civilization. This article also contains the views of various scholars of Chinese aesthetics since Li Ze Hou. The views are that the origins of "Yueh" are closely connected with mythology and witchcraft, being considered latent in the former. Thus, there arises a question of "The Composer's Mystical Nature". From the formation of myth, the words and the musical instrument, we can proceed to discuss the ancient meaning of "Yueh" . We can also make known the full mystical connection between "Yueh" and the composer

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