52 Book of Music (1/2)

”These?...” Cai Mingtyuan and Wu Guorui also exclaimed.

A roll of bamboo slips was spread out on the table.

The Bamboo slips are made up of hundreds of pieces of bamboo that are about two feet long and about 2 fingers wide. Each piece of bamboo is written in a line. The word is Daxie, a font commonly used in the late Western Zhou Dynasty.

The words are very beautiful and unique, warm, luxurious, ethereal, clean and neat, without hooking and pulling, which is reminiscent of Hongyi singular calligraphy.

Guo Jingchang has a deep knowledge of miscellaneous items and has systematically studied Daxie.

Guo Jingchang took the bamboo slips on the table in his hands and translated them word by word.

”Arouse yourself through poetry, establish yourself through ritualized action, and complete yourself with music, when Confucius was in Qi, he heard the Shao music, and for three months he did not know the taste of meat. 'I did not think,' he said, 'that the making of music could reach such perfection.” Elsewhere he declared, ”The Shao music is completely beautiful and completely good” (Analects 3:25)....

”This is the ”Book of Music.” Guo Jingchang has not finished the contents of the bamboo slip, Cai Guoyun has been exclaimed because he is too excited, the voice was a little trembling. Then he turned to Chen Rui and asked eagerly. ”Mr. Chen, are these bamboo slips true? Is there any bamboo slips in the same book with this bamboo slip ?”

Cai Guoyun asked Chen Rui two questions in succession. The speed is extremely fast, you can known that he is excited at the moment.

Chen Rui nodded and said, ”These bamboo slips are all true. There are 305 volumes in the same book as the bamboo slips.”

After that, Chen Rui pointed to a neat 305 bamboo slips on the shelf and said to Cai Mingyuan, ”These bamboo slips are all.”

From the Warring States Period to the Wei and Jin Dynasties, the writing materials of the ancients were bamboo slips, which were spliced ​​into a book with narrow bamboo pieces. Because there are not many words written on a bamboo slip, a simple book maybe requires many carriages to carry.

”Book of Music” is written into 305 volumes of bamboo slips, which can be loaded with four or five carriages.

Hearing words, Cai Mingyuan quickly walked to the front of the case in disregard of grievances, picked up a bamboo slip, spread it out, looked down for a while, then looked up, his eyes rounded, his face showing an incredible expression, shocked said, ”These are all, I did not expect to see the entire chapter of the ”Book of Music” that inherits and ranks here.”

You must know that the pre-Qin academic tradition is long and profound, and the pre-Qin academics are in the Six Classics. ”Book of Odes”, ”Book of Document”, ”Book of Rites”, ”Book of Music”, ”Book of Changes”, ”Spring and Autumn”, among them is ”Book of Music”, ”Book of Music” is more important than ”Book of Changes” and ”Spring and Autumn” Academic.

Later after Qin dynasty, the Six Classics changes into the four books and five classics.

The Five Classics refers to the ”Book of Odes”, ”Book of Document”, ”Book of Rites”, ”Book of Changes”, and ”Spring and Autumn”.

Why there is no ”Book of Music”, because the ”Book of Music” died.

The ”Book of Music” was destroyed by the Qin fire. After the Qin fire, the ”Book of Music” has not been circulated. Musicians can only play but cannot speak theories.