Abstract:

Ritual music contains eternal truth, but also endowed with the feeling of life. The ritual music system is not a utopia, but a national treasure that once laid the foundation for Chinese civilization. The civilization of ritual music is the symbol of Chinese civilization, but the changes in ritual music in history lead to its function deviation. From the current point of view, whether it is the cohesion of social communities or the access to individual life, the education of ritual music is an urgent need of the contemporary era. The modern reconstruction of classical ritual music education needs to reconstruct a comprehensive ritual music system, create a vigorous ritual music education, and integrate humanities courses with ritual music.

Key words: ritual music, humanization, Confucianism, harmony, order