A study of the inevitability of Confucius’ musical ideas from abstraction to specifics

Hou Yunlong

In the process of the evolution of Chinese culture, Confucius continued the cultural traditions established before him and created new integrations. His contribution and role was not at all limited to the plane of "moral education." He possessed a speculatively positive way of thinking, his conceptual definitions of being, music are contained in his conversations with students, scattered in notes on the history of China. By studying these materials, one can discover the scrupulousness and scientific nature of his way of thinking, all the conclusions left are closely interconnected, all the conclusions drawn about the universal inevitability gave Chinese civilization a complete and comprehensive cultural system.

Keywords:musical thinking of Confucius, universal inevitability, abstraction and reality