Ji Kang's Theory of Sound without Sorrow and Music
Music itself has nothing to do with people's emotional understanding of sadness and happiness. Ji Kang believes that some people think that there is sadness in music because the listener is in a bad mood. Naturally, the music he heard was also very sad.
Music has the functions of inducing and spreading. Ji Kang objected. Since the Han Dynasty, rulers have used music as a tool for political and social communication. He opposes that only kings can listen to music, and it is illegal for ordinary people to listen to music. He opposes those behaviors that ignore the artistry of music, and Ji Kang can't accept music as a prop for divination.
What Ji Kang saw was the formal beauty of music. Ji Kang was also the first person to discuss the contradiction between music content and appreciation. Ji Kang saw people's misunderstanding of music and correctly realized that the essence of music is to express the beauty that the composer wants to show to all listeners.
The reflected music thought advocates that music should break away from feudal politics and implement "rites and music punishment" This is the first time that China's feudal society recognized music, and it is also the source of China's two major thoughts on music aesthetics.
Ji Kang's music research is obvious to all. His articles greatly influenced the trend of ancient music and made people have a deeper understanding of music.
Ji Kang's Acceptance Poems
It is a five-character poem written by Ji Kang in the Three Kingdoms period. The whole poem was written by Ji Kang and the Seven Sages of Bamboo Forest. They climbed mountains and mountains and lived a comfortable life. The first half of this poem describes beautiful mountains and rivers, which makes people feel relaxed and happy. It can be seen that the poet is in an extremely relaxed state of mind and has this feeling of cocktail party.
Ji Kang's "Cocktail Poetry"
"Seven Sages of Bamboo Forest" came into being in Wei and Jin Dynasties. Most of them have a hard career. In order to avoid the disaster of being killed in court, they began to look for goals and pursue a higher standard of living. Sometimes they will write poems and play the piano to express their unfair sighs about the world. Sometimes they climb a mountain to overlook and talk about their lofty desire for nature. After the baptism of nature, they get spiritual sustenance and happiness.
The first half of this poem fully expresses the happiness that the poet can't express in words. As soon as the word "happy" appeared, it set a cheerful tone for the whole article. At first, the poet was very happy because he was in nature and far away from officialdom. Facing the beautiful scenery, the poet was intoxicated.
Fragrant flowers are in full bloom and towers stand in the distance. The branches and leaves of trees are intertwined, and carp are playing happily in the deep pool. This feeling, this feeling, is the mysterious side that nature shows people. How can the author not be moved by such beautiful scenery?
In the second half of this poem, the artistic conception obviously changed from scenery description to lyric expression, and the emotional color changed from initial happiness to thinking. He is even more worried when he thinks that his good friend Ruan Kan can't sell such beautiful scenery. Ji Kang's imagination of friends around him fully expressed the poet's desire to share this happy mood.
Behind the pleasant mood of enjoying the beautiful scenery of mountains and rivers, the poet reveals inexplicable feelings and casts a hazy color on the whole poem. This is a major feature of Ji Kang's poems, and it is also the common aspiration of poets in the late Wei Dynasty.
Ji Kang's Poems of Sorrow and Anger
Ji Kang's bitter poems are Ji Kang's works in the Three Kingdoms period. This poem was written by Ji Kang, expressing his indignation at being framed in Lu 'an. Expressed the melancholy in his life and the black-and-white reversal of this world. The whole poem clearly shows Ji Kang's own position. He resolutely opposes Sima's political attitude and wants to fight this unfair society to the end.
Angry poems
It is an important work of Ji Kang and an important reference for studying Ji Kang's personality and thoughts. When we read this poem, we must first understand its writing background. It can be found from historical records that Ji Kang's good friend Lu An was framed and imprisoned by his brother at this time.
Therefore, in order to prove his brother's innocence, Ji Kang said that Lu 'an's brother was the culprit, but the court at that time was not what Ji Kang thought. So Ji Kang didn't expect to lose, but Ji Kang didn't blame Lu An for it.
This poem was written after Lu An was arrested and imprisoned. In fact, there are deeper reasons for this poem. This is closely related to the poet's unique personality. As we know, politics in the late Wei Dynasty was quite dark, and honest intellectuals in the imperial court could always let small people take their lives.
The Seven Sages of Zhu Lin avoided talking about their careers because they saw the darkness. Ji Kang, the most successful of the seven sons, wanted to be a soldier and went to the front to fight Sima's family.
Although the direct reason for writing this poem is Lu's capture of injustice, the deeper meaning is that the author is in a specific prison environment and expresses his anger at human right and wrong. In this poem, Ji Kang once again shows his stubborn attitude of refusing to cooperate with Sima Shi.