Music can relax the body, and good music can relieve stress and avoid chronic diseases caused by autonomic nervous disorder.
Music can open the closed mind and relieve the depressed mood, and even music can achieve some degree of psychotherapy. Music can stimulate the brain and activate brain cells. Appropriate music stimulation is of great help to brain activity, and even achieves the effect of preventing aging.
Music can promote creativity, planning and stimulate the right brain, especially classical music, which is very helpful for the training and development of the right brain.
China Music History
Ancient Music
There is no distinction between ancient "poetry" in China, that is, literature and music are closely related. The poems in The Book of Songs, the earliest existing collection of Chinese poems, were all accompanied by tunes and sung orally for the people.
This tradition has continued. For example, the official poetry of the Han Dynasty is called "Han Yuefu", and both Tang poetry and Song poetry can be sung at that time. Even now, there are pop musicians who compose music and sing for ancient poems, such as Su Shi's "Water Melody" describing the Mid-Autumn Festival and Li Bai's "Thinking about a Quiet Night".
In ancient China, musicians were despised, unlike painters, because Chinese painting and calligraphy were closely related, and painters belonged to the literati class. In the Song Dynasty, they could even be "examiners by painting" (in fact, it was also because of Song Huizong's personal extreme love for painting).
Musicians have a low status and are only "actors" for the entertainment of the nobles. Li Guinian, a famous singer in the Tang Dynasty, also had no political status. People knew that he often appeared in Tang poems and was praised.
The "scholar-officials" class in ancient China believed that a cultivated person should be proficient in "Qin, chess, calligraphy and painting", and the so-called "Qin" was the ancient Qin that was circulated. However, guqin is only enjoyed by literati alone and cannot be performed to the public. Guqin has a low volume and is also a high-ranking instrument.
Summary: China's ancient music theory developed slowly, and its position in the "official history" was not high, leaving no more written materials. But music, like literature, is a compulsory course for ancient intellectuals, which undoubtedly plays an important role in the daily life of ancient China people. Folk is full of colorful melodies.