THE IMPORTANCE OF PRESERVING CHINESE TRADITIONAL MUSIC

THE IMPORTANCE OF PRESERVING CHINESE TRADITIONAL MUSIC

     Music is food of soul. It provides tired minds a healthy entertainment and help to release pressure of work and other social activities. If we look back at history, man love music and melody all the time. People were used to show their sentiment through music in different circumstances like war and battles, happiness and wedding ceremonies, grief and sorrow. Every religions and races have their own unique traditional music. 

     Traditional music is an important part of virtually every culture, and is very often the inspiration for other cultural musics as they develop throughout history. Traditional music is a part of how cultures celebrate, play, worship, grieve, experience peace and make war. Traditional music is contemporary to keep the heritage of that area alive. Most of the festivals and ceremonies of our country are connected to the traditions of our ancestors that is the reason of its high demand by the dwellers. Moreover people value it to pilgrimage the inventors of these traditional music and intrigued to keep them alive for ever. 

     Furthermore, preserving Chinese traditional music is extremely important since all of the songs are connected to the traditions of our ancestors. Therefore, the Chinese traditional music resemble the histories and the cultures of our religions. Most of the Chinese traditional music is related to a specific story such as wars and celebrations. We have our own roles to preserve it for our next generation so that our cultures can be past down from one generation to the next.

      In addition, traditional music has an inner power too. Nowadays, there are also some old folks listen to the traditional music whenever and wherever. They enjoy the traditional music when they are in both happy and sad time. They need music when relaxing as well as meditating, and even driving. Traditional music is played in festivals, in dance floors, in bedrooms, so on. How can traditional music do that? The only answer is that traditional music is a clever combination of real life and melody, as well as sentiments of composers. Traditional music therefore is easy to inspire emotion.

      Confucius taught that: “To educate somebody, you should start with poems, emphasize ceremonies, and finish with music.” Traditional musical knowledge was a matter of higher learning. It is said that he thought of the six most important subjects to study, studying music was second in importance only to the study of ritual or public ceremonies. He ranked music higher than the other four necessary subjects (archery, chariot-riding, calligraphy or writing, and computation or mathematics).

    In a nutshell, preserving Chinese traditional music is really a curial role that should be played by all of us, no matter how old we are and who we are. Chinese traditional music is the root of our religion and is the blood that flowing inside our bodies from the very first time we opened our eyes to see the world.