“郑声淫”再探

A New Exploration on Confucius' Viewpoint that Zheng Music was Obscene

自孔子提出"恶郑声""郑声淫"之后,围绕"郑声淫"的一系列问题随之而生。孔子以"郑声"乱"雅乐"之名,给"郑声"冠上了"淫"的恶谥,但对于到底何为"郑声",他却并未明说。于是"郑声淫"这一问题便成了《诗经》学史上的未解之谜。依据相关文献可知,"郑声"是一种异于古乐的"新乐",因其音乐形式上的过分奇巧和内在蕴含的淫靡情感而被斥之为"淫"。它其实只是一种时代的产物,相对来说更能充分表达人的本质情感。

After Confucius proposed the viewpoints that Zheng Music was obscene and it should be detested, a series of problems about Zheng Music arose. Because Confucius deemed that Zheng Music disturbed the classical court music, be defined it with a malicious reputation for＂obscenity＂; However,he didn＇t say explicitly about what the Zheng Music was. Thus Zheng Music being lascivious became a unsolved complicated case in the history of studying Book of Songs. According to relevant literature,Zheng Music was a kind of new music different from the ancient music, and it was denounced as obscene because of the excessive external form and inner emotion. Actually,it was just the product of that times,and it could fully express the essence of human emotion.