"The qin player, the ban also" prominently represents the Confucian music thought. Because Confucianism occupies an extremely important position in the Chinese guqin culture, it is also the mainstream thought of the guqin aesthetics. Understanding of function. Confucianism believes that the primary function of music is to educate, so the starting point of its aesthetic thinking is that music serves politics, etiquette and law, etc. As the representative of traditional Chinese musical instruments, the guqin is regarded as the "head of the eight tones", and of course it is given to governing the country Therefore, emphasizing the function of the guqin to serve the world has become an important feature of the Confucian guqin aesthetics.

"Zuo Zhuan" "a gentleman is close to the qin and se, and it is also a ritual, not a heart." "Xinyu·Wuwei" "In the past, Yu Shun ruled the world, played the five-stringed qin, and sang the poem "South Wind", if you were silent without the meaning of governing the country, if you were indifferent if you were worried about the hearts of the people, then the world was governed by nature." The relationship between them can be traced back to the source, and the thought of ritual music has been established in the field of Guqin. Since then, the relationship of music to politics and etiquette has become an important issue of emphasis.

"Huainanzi • Master Skills Training" "Confucius learned the drum and qin from Shixiang and told King Wen's aspirations. He saw the slightest and knew the bright. Jizi of Yanling listened to Lu music and knew the style of Yin and Xia, and he talked about the near to know the far." In ancient times, it was given to thousands of years, and the text did not die, what is more, it has transformed the people with the world." "Records of the Grand Historian • Tian Jingzhong finished the family" "The tone of the qin controls the world. The man who rules the country and kills the people is no better than the five-tone." "Xin Lun·Qin Dao" "will always be pivotal, enough to connect all things and examine and control chaos." Zhu Changwen's "History of the Qin", "A gentleman does not just take the sound of the qin, but to observe the government when he is good, and to keep his order when he is poor." Fan Zhongyan's "Listening to the True Master Qin Song" "will rule the world first and rule the piano first". "Chengyitang Qin Tan • Collected Theory" "The ancient sage emperor Ming Wang was so righteous, self-cultivating, ordering his family, governing the country, and pacifying the world, the right tone of the Xianlai Qin is a good thing." "The Right Sound of Qin Learning • The Essence of Fingering", "The instrument is the instrument, the strength of all music, the respect of unification and elegance, the rise and fall of politics and religion, and the evil and righteousness of people's hearts." The above and other remarks all believe that the main function of the guqin is to educate and cultivate one's self-cultivation. Since Confucianism emphasizes the idea of ritual and music and self-cultivation of Guqin, Confucianism pays special attention to the study of the relationship between music and its external aspects in the aesthetics of Guqin, but ignores the exploration of its own artistic laws. The result of lust.

As an ideology, music is bound to be influenced by political ideology and moral values, so it must also be connected with politics, rituals, and society, emphasizing that the relationship between them is beyond reproach, but if this relationship is considered to be To create music, music as a means of management ignores its aesthetic value, alienates music, and realizes the practical purpose of the tool. Confucianism put forward the proposition that "the qin player is forbidden", precisely for the purpose of highlighting the non-artistic function of the guqin, and demarcated many forbidden areas in the aesthetics and style of music.