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Ruan Ji advocated music health preservation in Jin Dynasty.
Using music for health preservation and disease prevention is not only a means that traditional doctors attach great importance to, but also highly praised by philosophers, thinkers and writers in history. According to the theory of music in the Jin Dynasty, there is no music in the world, and it is difficult to reconcile yin and yang and avoid disaster. Musicians make people calm and sad. He believes that music is an important guarantee for people's mental peace and physical health.

In traditional health care and traditional medicine, music is in harmony with nature and human body, and it is also the harmony between music and people. Music can cure diseases because it coordinates the yin and yang aspects of the human body and is unified with the natural changes of yin and yang in the universe. The information released by the beautiful melody can be transformed into material strength to achieve the effect of harmonizing the human body. Music can adjust the functional state of viscera, that is, music is in harmony with viscera. Music is a kind of comprehensive information. Musical instruments with different sounds, rhythms, speeds, dynamics and different frequency spectrums are transmitted to the body with the vibration of sounds, which makes the functions of zang-fu organs tend to be naturally coordinated.

Music not only cultivates the body, but also cultivates the temperament. Xunzi said in "On Music": Therefore, the happiness is bright, the ritual trip, the eyes and ears are smart, the blood is calm, the customs are changed, the world is peaceful, and the beauty and goodness are all happy. Traditional music pays attention to clear, quiet and distant artistic conception, which is exactly the same as the law of conforming to nature and indifferent to nothingness advocated by traditional medicine. This kind of thought is not far away from the world, but a measure to bring people's temperament to peace and tranquility through xerox, which can be adjusted by various methods such as temperance, catharsis, empathy and emotional control.