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Chapter 526 The difference between temperament and music
This day is destined to be an unforgettable day.

In front of Qin Yong and his civil and military officials, Ying Zheng gave an order that today's events have already been recorded in the Great Qin History Policy.

Qin Yong's name was also recorded on the record.

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In the grand ceremony of offering sacrifices to the heavens, Lishan offered sacrifices to the rooftops, and countless people gathered.

One hundred thousand Lishan army, one hundred thousand laborers, thirty thousand tiger and ben army, civil and military emperors and ministers, and princes gathered.

Accompanied by a melodious and hollow sound of the piano, the continuous sound of bells and drums, the ceremony of offering sacrifices to heaven with complicated rules officially began.

It is a very boring thing to pay homage to the ancients.

Of course, people with faith may not be so boring.

But from Qin Yong's point of view, apart from some epic fantasy, this scene is really boring.

The Heaven Worship Ceremony is also called the Heaven Worship Ceremony.

In ancient times, it was the business of wizards.

But with the development of the times, after the establishment of the Great Zhou Dynasty, King Wen Confucianism began to appear.

Later, through the gathering of Confucius, all kinds of etiquette have become the special skills of Confucianism.

Confucianism replaced the former wizards, and improved all the sacrifice methods of wizards, which became Confucian rituals.

Of course, although Confucianism robbed wizards of their jobs, all the rules were not lost.

Since ancient times, in offering sacrifices to the gods and ancestors of heaven and earth, the melody has always been the most important thing in the sacrifice ceremony, followed by operations such as dancing to the gods.

At this moment, on the sacrificial platform, Ying Shuang was originally the sacrificial princess of the Great Qin Ancestral Hall, so she naturally became the luthier in the sacrificial ceremony.

And the Confucian jumping gods are completely different from the wizards' jumping gods.

In other words, on the Confucian side, there is no such thing as jumping to the gods.

After the improvement of Confucianism, the process of dancing to the great god has become a variety of salutes, three worships and nine kowtows, the rituals of Zhoutian!

After some operations, everyone else was in high spirits and did not dare to neglect, but Qin Yong was the only one who looked drowsy.

It was only when he saw the crowds of people below that he could be a little more energetic. For him, all other processes were no different from hypnosis.

Don't talk too much, just talk about the melodious piano sound, others can hear it with enthusiasm, but Qin Yong really can't understand it.

There is also the sound of bells and drums, as if deliberately stimulating people's sleep nerves, making people drowsy.

Qin Yong was very helpless. It would be great if these music could be replaced with any kind of music from later generations. It would be exciting to listen to anyway!

倒不是秦用瞧不上华夏显著的音律知识，更不能说秦用崇洋媚外，对后世的1、2、3、4、5、6、7、1演奏的音乐喜欢，对华夏古人宫商角徵羽五音演奏的音律就瞧不上。

其实宫商角徵羽也好，1、2、3、4、5、6、7、1也罢，都是那么回事。

The difference is that between the two, Gongshangjiao Zhengyu only lacks two notes, but the performance is not much different.

而且在秦用看来，虽然1、2、3、4、5、6、7、1这些经过后世各国一同交流研究出来的曲调较为丰满，但要说演奏的音律，很多时候也不如宫商角徵羽，也就是七音中的1、2、3、5、6五音演奏的曲调好听。

In fact, the five tones are not much different from the seven tones exchanged by various countries in later generations. If there is a difference, the performance of the five tones has a more ancient Chinese feel.

For example, Jasmine, the song that everyone sings, is played by the pentameter.

It's very simple, everyone can sing it, and it's emotional.

For example, "Swordsman in Later Generations", Tianlong Bayin and other exciting songs are all played in five tones, who dare say that they can't understand?Who dares to say it's not good?
But why is Qin Yong not able to understand this piece, which is also played by the pentameter, and even makes him feel drowsy?

In fact, in the final analysis, the paths taken by the two are different.

For Qin Yong, the music played by the ancients is a culture. In front of such a culture, all people in the world are laymen and uneducated people after all.

There is a saying in later generations that a person with knowledge does not mean that he is educated, but a person with education must be knowledgeable!

The meaning of this sentence completely separates knowledge and culture, but they are connected with each other.

What is knowledge, if you learn a lot of things that can be used, that is called knowledge.

What is culture?What carries a country's heritage is called culture.

These things of the ancients were talking about culture.

Not to mention too much, let's just say that Gongshangjiao Zhengyu, in later generations, is a simple five-tone, similar to the seven-tone, just for playing beautiful and beautiful music.

But it's different in this era. The ancient Chinese were able to connect the five sounds of Gongshangjiao Zhengyu with the five elements of heaven and earth, the five grains of the world, and all kinds of things together.

The ancients yearned for the nature of heaven and earth, and the unity of man and nature.

Well, the piece he played couldn't be as simple as Gong Shangjiao Zhengyu, and it also contained the theory of the five elements.

For example, Gaoshan Liushui sounds like a lofty name, but in fact it plays a piece of landscape, which brings people back to nature.

People who can understand and feel it will naturally find it very magical.

But how many such people can there be?
Those are all truly cultured and cultivated people.

But for an ordinary person like Qin Yong, this requires high mountains and flowing water. I can't climb the mountains by myself, so I can see the water by myself?I want to listen to what kind of piano you play, but also to be there, is it difficult?

The key is to not understand the twists and turns, so that you can't understand what's in it at all.

Therefore, the temperament of the ancients and the music of later generations formed two different schools.

A cultural route that yearns for the unity of heaven, earth and man. It has profound meaning, but it is complicated and confusing, subtle and incomprehensible.

One is yearning for simplicity, which does not contain any meaning, as long as it sounds good, and it is mainly emotional.

Relatively speaking, the temperament of the ancients is profound, while the temperament of later generations is the numbered notation.

Everyone can understand this simplified notation, because the literal meaning is originally simple, and ordinary people can feel it when they hear it.

The music of the ancients can only be appreciated by cultural people.

Obviously, Qin Yong is not a cultural person. In his previous life, when he was pretending to be aggressive, he could still bear it by listening to these music. Now, in this era, there is no chance for him to pretend to be aggressive.

"It seems that I have to find a time to adjust the rhythm, otherwise I will look like an uneducated person wherever I go!"

Qin Yong thought to himself.

Unknowingly, several hours passed.

All kinds of memorial ceremonies passed, and with Ying Zheng finishing his eulogy and performing the rites, finally, this time the ceremony of offering sacrifices to heaven came to an end.

On the way back, Qin Yong felt as if he had been beaten with chicken blood.

He swore that in the future, as long as he could, he would not participate in this so-called ceremony of offering sacrifices to heaven, it was too boring.

Unless the tune can be changed for the next sacrifice to heaven, even if you blow the suona twice, the music for worshiping heaven will not be so hypnotic!

(End of this chapter)