Huangdi Neijing, a classic work of traditional Chinese medicine, put forward the theory of "treating diseases with five tones" more than two thousand years ago, and Zuozhuan even said that music has the same taste as medicine, which can make people healthy and live longer. The ancient aristocratic court was equipped with band singers, not purely for entertainment, but also played an important role in relaxing the body and mind with music.
All diseases are born of qi and stop at sound.
Ancient music is different from now, with only five sounds: horn, sign, palace, Shang and feather. These five scales are endowed with five attributes by China's traditional philosophy: wood (horn), fire (sign), earth (palace), gold (business) and water (feather). This is exactly what Chinese medicine uses.
Music can be deeply rooted in people's hearts. In the psychology of traditional Chinese medicine, music can infect and regulate emotions, and then affect the body. When listening, let melody, emotion and dirty qi interact with each other to achieve the functions of turbulent blood vessels, unobstructed spirit and heart pulse. Physiologically, when music vibration coincides with physiological vibration (heart rate, rhythm, respiration, blood pressure, pulse, etc.). ) in the human body, it will produce physiological * * * vibration and * * * ringing. This is the physical and mental basis of "five-tone therapy".
"All diseases are born of qi"! This "qi" is not only an emotion, but also the dirty qi of the five internal organs. According to the difference of each person's own body structure, the difference of the five internal organs in dirty qi, and with different music, the five tones can prevent diseases and preserve health. Of course, we don't use a certain sound to adjust an organ, but use the principle of five elements to make them coexist, resist and restrict each other. Combination of five sounds, highlighting a certain sound appropriately and coordinating the body.
Use music as medicine.
In traditional Chinese characters, music, medicine and therapy are homologous, and music has a natural connection with medicine and therapy. Music can relax the body, please the mind, circulate qi and blood, promote meridians, and have the ability to regulate the human body, just like medication.
Music has meridian tropism, ups and downs, cold and hot, and all kinds of characteristics of Chinese herbal medicine. Moreover, music needs to be processed, and the same music can use different instruments, rhythms, dynamics, harmony and so on. They are compatible with each other, just as there are differences in the assistance of monarch and minister in Chinese medicine prescriptions. ? Music therapy, there are also positive and negative therapies. Letting emotional exciters listen to peaceful and sad music is the most commonly used method. It can also synchronize music with emotions and help listeners vent too many bad emotions, such as taking away sadness with crying music and venting excessive excitement with fast-paced music.
The liver-looking for angle in voice-looking for anger in ambition.
Heart-voice is the symbol-ambition is happiness.
Spleen-palace in voice-thinking in ambition
Lung-in the voice of business-in the wild heart of worry.
Kidney-voice is feather-ambition is fear
There are many records about the collocation of five elements, five tones and five internal organs in ancient medical books. For example, in Huangdi Neijing, the theory of Yin and Yang should be figuratively said: the wind is in the east, the wind produces wood, the wood produces acid, and the acid produces liver ... the sound is the horn, and the sound is the call. In the south, heat produces fire, fire produces bitterness, and bitterness produces heart ... it is a sign in the voice and a smile in the voice. The center is wet, the soil is wet, the soil is sweet, the spleen is sweet ... in the sound, it is a palace, in the sound, it is a song. West produces dryness, dryness produces gold, gold produces symplectic, symplectic produces lung, …… business is in sound, crying is in sound, …. Cold is born in the north, cold is born in water, salty is born in the kidney ... in the voice, it is a feather, in the voice, it is a groan.
In a word, according to the records of ancient Chinese medical books, there are five elements in the sky (wood, fire, earth, gold and water), and five tones are born (horn, sign, palace, business and feather); There are five seasons (spring, summer, long summer, autumn and winter) and five educations (birth, growth, cultivation, harvest and hiding). People have five internal organs (liver, heart, spleen, lung and kidney) and five aspirations (anger, happiness, thinking, worry and fear). It embodies the organic connection between man and heaven and earth.
The artistic conception pursued by China's music is clear, quiet, light and far, which is exactly the same as the principle of "quietness and nothingness" advocated by Chinese medicine.
All diseases are caused by stagnant gas in the body, and the disease will be cured soon if it is evacuated by music. Su Wen's General Theory, a classic work of traditional Chinese medicine, says that "all diseases are caused by qi", while Ling Shu Wu Yin Wu Wei elaborates on the theory of regulating diseases with five criteria: industry, business, communication, righteousness and depression, and finally summarizes it as the music therapy theory that "all diseases stop with sound because of qi".
The following are some quotations from ancient people on music therapy:
Neijing: "Gong Yin is melodious and harmonious, which helps the spleen to be healthy and has a strong appetite; Businessmen are forceful, good at controlling impatience and anger and making people peaceful; The horn is smooth and peaceful, good at eliminating depression and helping people fall asleep; Sign the sound to suppress reciting, regulate blood vessels and cheer up the spirit; Feather sound is soft and thorough, thought-provoking and inspiring. "
"White Tiger Tong Li Yue": "Harmony of Five Tones, Cultivation of Everything"
Historical Records of Le Shu: "turbulent blood, flowing spirit and just heart"
The music in The Analects of Confucius Classics "can connect heaven and earth and meet gods".
"Li Zhuo Parallel Prose": "The disease of seven emotions is better than taking medicine."
In a word, the five tones and the five zang-organs seem to be two completely different concepts, in fact, they can all interact through the communication properties of the five elements. It is quite wonderful that the five tones enter the human body and improve its mechanism of action. First of all, the introduction of music into the body will cause the harmonious and synchronous vibration of human cells and tissues, and then adjust human physiological rhythm. Appropriate sound waves can make the physiological functions of various systems and tissues in a harmonious state. Such as pulse fluctuation, heart rate, respiratory rhythm, gastrointestinal peristalsis, and even muscle contraction and relaxation, can be well regulated. Music sound wave is also a kind of energy, which can stimulate the human potential and make the human body more vigorous. Secondly, music sound waves also have a benign stimulating effect on the central nervous system and endocrine system, which can promote the endocrine system to secrete healthy hormones and promote human metabolism.