Social Control: Rite-Music and Education via Music

The relationship between ritual music and music education is not only an important term in Chinese music history, but also a research field of concern in disciplines such as literature, history, and philosophy. At present, due to their knowledge structure, the research of scholars in literature, history, and philosophy is usually limited to “ritual” and neglects “music”; Musicologist, following the paradigms of literature, history, and philosophy, doing repetitive work. The commonality between these two types of research groups is that they prefer to use the words of the ancients to explain them, which goes against the direction of “humanity moving towards truth”. To address the above issues, this article attempts to explore the relationship between ritual and music education through interdisciplinary research methods such as conceptual derivation and the determination of straight lines between ancient and modern concepts.