The ritual and music culture is the organic constituent of Chinese traditional culture, which has an important influence to continue and further develop Chinese civilization. In the traditional cultural pattern of ritual and music, ritual and music often present the harmonious consistent appearance.
As early as the Xia and Shang Dynasties, wisdoms had already laid down ritual rules and music to promote ethical and moral principles, and to maintain social order, forming a rather complete ritual and music system. And now it still has strong vitality after thousands years of influence in the history of Chinese civilization.
The birth of ritual and music culture
Music is strongly linked to ritual all over the world and from its first appearance onwards. Music is an essential part of religious rites from the time of primitive worship. Till the Xia Dynasty, the rites system began to form, but it is difficult to know its detail because of a lack of records.
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