Why are all musicians in the East and West Zhou Dynasties blind?

In ancient times, blind musicians were called "Hu", "Meng" or "Hu u" "Zhou Li" records that there was a Yue official in the Zhou Dynasty, who was subordinate to the Spring official and the local official (whose duty was to master etiquette), and was actually one of the etiquette officials. And "Meng Meng" belongs to the spring official, whose duty is to "play, tune, tune, flute, pipe, string and song" satirically recite poems, pay tribute to the world, play drums, play the piano and play musical instruments. Take the song of nine virtues and six poems and serve your master. "That is to say, these blind instrumentalists take it as their responsibility to play various instruments, and at the same time they also undertake the vocal part of the etiquette performance, accompanied by satirical poems with instruments such as harps and harps.

The famous blind musician on the calendar is Shi Kuang of Jin State during the Warring States Period. It is said that when Shi Kuang plays the piano, the horse will stop eating grass and raise his head to listen. Birds foraging for food will be grounded, get drunk and lose food in their mouths.

In fact, Shi Kuang was not born blind. In order to improve his musical accomplishment, Shi Kuang felt that the eyes of the outside world would easily distract him, so he pricked his eyes with two needles, and as a result, he became a master of music in China.

Therefore, we can infer that musicians are often blind, including two kinds of people, one is born blind, leading to musical attainments, and the other is to improve their musical attainments and take the initiative to make themselves blind.

The question "Why are blind people so sensitive to music?" It's not complicated The advantage of the blind lies in "purity" Have a clean heart. That's what the so-called "out of sight is clean" means. For example, if you can't see what you want, your heart won't be chaotic. This is also the truth.