First, "harmony and music" can calm the mind. As a therapeutic method, obscene and pathogenic music has been recognized as having the functions of calming the mind and relieving impatience. Harmonious and moderate music can affect people's mood and make people achieve psychological peace. This therapeutic effect can be described as "harmony without difference".
From the case of Ouyang Xiu's Gong Yin used to treat anxiety, sadness and other diseases, it can be seen that choosing appropriate tunes and treatment forms can play a very good role in treatment and health care, as Ouyang Xiu said in Shu Mei Yu's After Saving Manuscripts: "Where music reaches the sum of heaven and earth, it is connected with fashion, so its illness can be felt in the heart, and joy and sorrow can be observed in the sound." He also said in the "Three Tests of Chinese Studies": "You can't exercise self-restraint when you are happy; The ultimate nature cannot be reconciled, Pierer. " In Northern Song Dynasty, Sima Guang put forward the way of keeping in good health, holding that "harmony leads to happiness", "harmony leads to courtesy", "harmony leads to propriety" and "harmony leads to nature". The voice of capacity is at the end. " Zhou Dunyi also put forward the idea of "light harmony" in music health preservation. He said: "Therefore, music is light but not harmful, and harmony is not obscene. When you hear it, you feel it, it is so light and harmonious. Be calm when it's light, and be relieved when it's harmonious. "To sum up, many ancient people thought that" harmony "can make the mind calm, and" musicians, circulating blood, turbulent spirit and harmonious mind "can only be achieved in a beautiful and pleasant" harmony "." Physical education can only cure diseases by exercising joints, while playing the piano is cultivated with spirit. So why do you live long? "This may also be one of the reasons.
Contrary to harmony, the ancients believed that bad music rules would lead to human diseases. The two words "gentle voice descending" and "countless masturbation sounds" mentioned in the paragraph of "Medical Harmony" refer to gentle and gentle sounds and complicated music with mixed skills. At that time, it was pointed out that "countless masturbation sounds" made people "get carried away" and advised "gentlemen to listen". Xunzi explicitly opposed the "evil voice" of "Yao Ye is desperate", and the story of Shi Kuang drumming in Lun Heng Yao Ji Chapter expressed this idea: "Shi Kuang gets a drum, a drum rises, and a cloud rises in the northwest; Play it again, the wind is coming, the heavy rain is coming, the curtain is cracked, the beans are broken, the porch tiles are falling, and the people sitting there are scattered. The fair man was afraid and curled up in the gallery. ..... grandfather's body is sick, so it can be seen that "evil sound" can really cause disease. Ling also believes that many diseases are caused by listening to discordant music, and points out that "if you are shocked by listening to music, you will be dazzled by this beauty, and you will not suffer anything." "
? Confucius once said that "changing customs and customs makes people happy" and advocated using perfect music to achieve the goals of "righting the heart", "self-cultivation", "governing the country" and "leveling the world". He believes that music is conducive to creating a beautiful and harmonious social environment, and a good social environment is the basis of a person's physical and mental health. By improving personal cultivation and self-cultivation, the whole social atmosphere is peaceful and clear. This small but big social effect is the great role brought by the small art of music.
From a modern point of view, choosing beautiful and exquisite music can really achieve the effect of health preservation. Generally speaking, music with smooth tunes, gentle rhythm, simple harmony, elegant and simple timbre and soft and full volume meets people's inner needs and achieves the purpose of health preservation. Disco, similar to the ancient "slutty voice", is not only beneficial to health, but also extremely unfavorable to some patients with heart disease and hypertension. Therefore, "Harmony Song" is calm, and the lewd voice causes disease. Music therapy is not beneficial and harmless. The key lies in the choice of music, which is also a basic principle that we must follow in music health preservation.