朱载堉著作的命运新探

On the Fate of Zhu Zaiyu’s Work

朱载堉发明的十二等比律(俗称"十二平均律"),没有在宫廷和民间得到应用和推广,这是历史事实。关于其原因,那就是朱载堉献书以后,被宫廷"束之高阁,未予理睬",这来自某些著作和某些其它材料。文章的作者依据一些史料,对朱载堉的"十二等比律"不被应用提出的自己的见解。

Zhu Zaiyu was a musician and one of the first people to describe equal temperament in music in 1584. This kind of equal temperament, however, did not use in either royal court or among the people. For the reason, some books and documents showed that the ideas with temperament was ignored by the royal court. The author based on some of historical materials and proposed own ideas to explain the reason of non using Zhu Zaiyu＇s equal temperament in the history.