Confucius
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The Importance of Music in Confucianism
The Book of Songs, until it was a key Confucian text, even though a lot of the songs are immoral and bodied. Drusci thought that this really understood poetry and the arts as a kind of expression of things which are perhaps too deep emotionally to be expressed easily in verbal form. So it comes out in poetry, an ordinary prose form. There's one record of him actually getting so enraptured by some music he heard that he didn't eat or sleep for three days. And there's a love song in which the young woman is urging her lover to get out of bed and get out before the household is up and about. He sort of interpreted as an
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