Music and Ritual
Music and ritual together cultivate the emotions and create harmony.
Music (yue) and ritual work together in Confucian education. Ritual orders external behavior; music harmonizes the emotions. Together they create the complete, cultivated person.
Be stimulated by poetry, established by ritual, perfected by music.
Music and ritual together form a complete education.
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- What Confucianism says about reverence and ritual
Ritual orders behaviour and music is held to order the feelings. The two are given as a sequence, with poetry stirring a person, ritual steadying them and music completing them.