瞽矇与中国古代礼乐文化

The Ancient Blind Musical Officials' and Ceremonial and Music Culture in Ancient China

"礼乐文化"是中国文化的基本特质。"瞽矇",精通各种音乐,熟知各种祭祀礼仪,他们在上古礼乐文明诸多的活动中表现突出,占据着极为重要的地位,并对礼乐文化的传播做出了多方面的贡献。通过对古代音乐文献相关记载的梳理,可以发现瞽矇与音乐的渊源:他们是古代乐官的一类,地位很高,在礼乐活动当中扮演重要角色,在政治教化、历史传承、音乐教育等多方面承担重要职能。

＂ Music culture＂ is the basic characteristic of Chinese culture. Ancient blind musicians who are proficiency in a variety of music, and knew intimately all kinds of religious rites, were prominent in ancient China＇s music culture civilization activities, occupied the very important position and made many contributions to the dissemination of culture. Through combing the ancient music literature and records, we can find that they had close relationship with music ： They were one kinds of the ancient music officers and they had very high status; they played an important role in a variety of music activities and they took various responsibility , such as music education, political indoctrination and history dissemination.