Exploration of Ji Kang's Music Ideology and Analysis of Its Aesthetic Meanings

The theoretical base being the deepening and regeneration of Lao Zi and Zhuang Zi's philosophical thinking as well as the rebellion against the traditional Confucian thinking, the internal cause of Ji Kang's music ideology is his thinking of the way of keeping in good health and its direct cause is the booming of metaphysics in the period of Wei and Jin. Ji Kang first orientated his perspectives of the relationship between music and society and the relationship between music and man to the way that music itself existed and thus had very important influence on the development of China's music aesthetics.