Yi Zhuan's influence on the musical aesthetic ideology in Yue Ji : Simultaneously on the two incompatible aesthetic outlooks in Yue Ji

The book of Yue Ji (Records of Music)was impacted by ideologies dwelling in Xun Zi and Yi Zhuan, resulting two incompatible aesthetic viewpoints: One originated from Xun Zi bases upon the formative world outlook and insists that music comes from the mind's re-sponse to the external world; the other originated from Yi Zhuan bases on the philosophy that the world is ever changing and maintains that music roots in the living world perse. In the modern language atmosphere of western dualistic culture with subject and object separated, people have a clear comprehension on the former viewpoint, whereas misread the latter as seri-ously as such that a majority of modern scholars deny it completely. In fact, as a particular contribution of Chinese people to the world civilization, it is the latter, which genuinely repre-sents Chinese aesthetic spirits and difficult to be comprehended by western culture, that forms the theoretic essence of Yue Ji.