With melodious music in my ear and a cup of fragrant tea in my hand, it is really a great enjoyment to talk about life with my friends. However, people's understanding of music still stays in the understanding of pleasure. From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, the pleasure of music has the function of health preservation and can prolong people's life. There is a close relationship between health preservation culture and the pleasure of music. This paper analyzes and discusses this.
Music can adjust people's body in many ways, which can make people's body and mind reach a harmonious state, and then prolong people's life. People are used to using music to express their feelings, to express their ideas, to boost their morale, to entertain their lives and to play their pleasant function in health culture.
first, the origin of music's pleasant health-keeping function
Music uses its own unique melody and language to express different emotions of human beings. The most magical thing about music is that it can reach the soul directly. Therefore, it has a certain function in the healing of the soul and has a certain health care function. We can call it music health preservation. The origin of music's pleasure in keeping in good health is very early.
Music therapeutics is an important branch of modern medicine. According to relevant medical professionals, music health preservation appeared thousands of years ago, and a sentence in the Book of Changes is very accurate: "Correspond with the same voice and seek for the same spirit", which proves to a great extent that the origin of music health preservation culture in China is very early and profound. In the Spring and Autumn Period, Yihe was the earliest expert in music health preservation. He linked people's diseases with music, and adopted the way of music therapy to achieve the purpose of healing. Yihe also became an important promoter of promoting music health preservation. Confucius and Zhuangzi, famous people in China, also have unique views on music health preservation. Confucius once advocated: "The middle voice is festival-oriented", and Zhuangzi's "Don't listen to your ears, but listen to your heart; It also expounds the role of music in health preservation.
In the Tang and Song Dynasties, the development of music entered a new stage, and its health-preserving function was gradually known by people, and people began to use music to treat diseases. Poetry in the Tang and Song Dynasties was the most prosperous stage. At that time, many poets explained the effect of music health preservation in their poems. Bai Juyi once wrote in his poems: "The nature is good, and the heart is empty. When you hear it, everything is out of your heart; It's easy to get rid of illness, and it's good to nurture. It's especially appropriate to listen to' Three Music' to comfort Pulsatilla. " Emphasis is placed on the role of music in psychological adjustment. Ouyang Xiu, a famous literary master, has personally experienced the treatment of diseases with music. From this, we can see that there is a close relationship between musical pleasure and health culture.
During the Jin and Yuan Dynasties, Zhang Zihe's level of treating diseases with music was greatly improved, and he advocated treating diseases with musical instruments more than using drugs, and used its pleasure to reduce the pain caused by diseases.
In the Ming and Qing Dynasties, music therapy developed rapidly, and people had a deeper understanding of the important role of musical pleasure in diseases and its treatment mechanism. The medical book "Jin Jian of Medical Zong" in Qing Dynasty further described in detail how to pronounce five tones, their characteristics and the mechanism of treating diseases. From the above analysis, we can see that musical pleasure has made brilliant achievements in the medical history of China.
Second, the health-preserving function of musical pleasure and the basic theory of traditional Chinese medicine
(I) Music pleasure health-preserving and Yin-Yang theory
As one of the oldest cultures in China, Yin-Yang theory originated very early, and explained the properties of things with the relationship of opposition and unity of everything. Yin-Yang is a dynamic and balanced relationship of interdependence, mutual restriction and interaction, and Yin-Yang theory has also become the basis of traditional Chinese medicine theory, which runs through the whole theory of traditional Chinese medicine and is balanced physically and mentally. The Taiping Jing in the Eastern Han Dynasty once made a detailed analysis of the origin of Yin-Yang theory from the significance of health preservation, and thought that music was in line with the principle of Yin-Yang, specifically: "The high is Yang, and the low is Yin; Yang in major and Yin in minor; Strong is yang, weak is yin; Just for yang, soft for yin; The voice of golden leather is yang, and the voice of silk wood is yin. " The health-keeping function of musical pleasure is mainly based on the yin and yang of human body, and the yin and yang of music can just make up for its deficiency, achieve the balance of yin and yang, and achieve the purpose of curing diseases.
(II) Musical Pleasure for Health and Five Elements
In ancient books, the five elements were connected with five tones, and the theory of "five internal organs are in harmony" appeared, that is, the palace sound enters the spleen, the business sound enters the lungs, the horn sound enters the liver, the sign sound enters the heart and the feather sound enters the kidney. Using the principle of mutual generation and mutual resistance in the five elements, combined with the principle of unity of opposites in the five tones. Music is used to convey people's emotions. The ancients once classified the spiritual effect: "Gong Yin is peaceful and strong, solemn and generous; The business sound is strong and sorrowful, and it is miserable and healthy; The horn sound is long and clear, honest and warm; The voice is fluent, elegant and supple; The feather sound is noble and clear, and it is light and clear. " This theory is of irreplaceable significance in music's pleasant health preservation. It has been recorded in Neijing: "Palace is the voice of the spleen, which is big and harmonious, and sighing is also harmful to the spleen. You can make it angry with the excitement of palace sound to cure it; Business is the voice of the lungs, light and energetic, and those who mourn are also sad. You can make them happy with the joy of business sounds to cure your worries. Generally speaking, as long as you choose targeted music, its function is very obvious and you will gain different health care effects.
(3) The health-preserving function of music and the seven emotions
The seven emotions mentioned here refer to emotions, worries, sorrows and fears, which is a general summary of the dynamic changes of people's minds. In music, the changes of tunes can produce certain * * * sounds with the dynamic changes of people's minds, and the changes of seven emotions will cause some diseases. At this time, the role played by music is very unique, and the famous medical scientist Zhang Zihe has his own unique views on this. Treat sadness with joy, and make fun of it by mistake; Treat happiness with fear, and learn from it with the words of forced death; Use anger to control thinking, and insult and bully things; Treat fear with thought, and seize it with the words of worrying about others. All these five things will be deceitful and strange, and then they will be moving and easy to see. " Only a happy mood can ensure people's health and longevity. It is through this kind of consciousness and emotion that music affects the pathological changes and purifies people's hearts with music to achieve the goal of health preservation.
Third, the health-keeping function of musical pleasure
(1) Calm people's mentality
The ability of musical pleasure to calm people's mentality has long been recognized, and the harmony and moderation of music can influence people's emotions and achieve psychological peace. Choosing appropriate music and treatment methods can play a certain role in health care. There are many documents that have expounded the peaceful mentality of music pleasure. Ouyang Xiu once analyzed the peaceful function of music in After the Draft of Shu Mei Sheng Yu, and thought that it could alleviate the disease by reaching a connection with popularity. In addition, he has also expounded the peace of music in other books. In addition to Ouyang Xiu, Sima Guang and Zhou Dunyi have also made relevant explanations on the harmonious psychological function of musical pleasure. In a word, the peaceful mentality of music can not be ignored, which can increase the smoothness of blood vessels, make people happy and achieve the purpose of health preservation.
Modern times have also analyzed the health-preserving function of musical pleasure. Soothing music, harmonious bel canto, simple tone and melodious music can keep people's hearts in a balance and achieve the purpose of health-preserving. However, not all music has a healing effect, and some music still has certain harm. Therefore, according to the mechanism of illness, we should choose the right music to achieve the purpose of health preservation, and only by choosing it properly can we play an important role in health preservation.