Classic of Music
| Classic of Music | |||||||||||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 樂經 | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Simplified Chinese | 乐经 | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Transcriptions | |
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| Standard Mandarin | |
| Hanyu Pinyin | Yuèjīng |
| Wade–Giles | Yüeh4-ching1 |
| IPA | [ɥê.tɕíŋ] |
| Yue: Cantonese | |
| Yale Romanization | Ngohk-gīng |
| Southern Min | |
| Tâi-lô | Ga̍k-king |
The Classic of Music (Chinese: 樂經; pinyin: Yuè jīng) was a Confucian classic text lost by the time of the Han dynasty. It is sometimes referred to as the "Sixth Classic" (for example, by Sima Qian ) and is thought to have been important in the traditional interpretations of the Book of Songs.
Qing dynasty scholar Shao Yichen (, 1810-1861) proposed that the book never existed, but more usually it is thought that all copies were destroyed during the burning of books and burying of scholars.
A few traces remain in other surviving works, including the Zuo Zhuan, the Rites of Zhou, and the extremely redacted, poor-quality Record of Music contained in the Classic of Rites. As accounted in the Book of Han, Dou Gong 竇公 (5-4 cc. BC), a musician of the state of Wei possessed a book Yue shu which was presented to Han Wen-di. However, the text is associated with the Da siyue section of the Zhou li (大宗伯 part).
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