Before winter arrives in Shanghai, there are always a few drizzling rains. The wet and cold weather in the pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info makes people feel that the cold is very permeable, and the people passing by around them have erected their collars and tightened their necks in the collars.

Qi Luoling and her philosophy teacher, Professor Chen, walk on the path on the university campus.

The few remaining yellow leaves on the trees on both sides of the campus road also swirled in the cold wind and floated in the air, and the bare branches pointed straight to the sky.

After Cheng Yuping introduced her to his senior brother Professor Chen, he left alone to do his own business.

Professor Chen is in his thirties, ordinary-looking, not tall, thin, fair, very elegant, and wears glasses of several hundred degrees.

"Listening to Yuping, do you want to understand the impact of music on people's thinking and emotions?" Professor Chen looked at her and smiled calmly.

"Yes, I'm sorry to bother you." Qi Luoling said politely.

"It's okay, it's rare that you're interested in this. Does your profession have anything to do with music? “

She thought for a moment and said, "I'm just a music lover, and I'm having some problems with it, so I'd like to ask for advice in this direction." “

At this time, there was a cacophony of noises in the distance, including noise, laughter, cheers, and even the honking of car horns. In the midst of all kinds of sounds, there are piano music mixed in. Qi Luoling keenly caught its faint presence.

"Excerpt from Wagner's Lohengrin." She muttered to herself.

"What?" Professor Chan didn't seem to understand.

Qi Luoling smiled apologetically and said, "I just overheard a familiar tune just now. ”

"Why didn't I hear that?" He tried to listen with his ears, shaking his head in disappointment, "I didn't hear anything. ”

"Forgive me, I'm a little more sensitive to music than the average person." Qi Luoling smiled slightly.

"I didn't hear it clearly, what kind of music did you say?"

"Excerpt from Wagner's Lohengrin." Qi Luoling repeated.

"An excerpt from Wagner's Lohengrin?" He struggled to search his mind for piano music that he had heard before.

"By the way, I remembered this tune. This piece is the piece that brought Hitler to tears. Professor Chen smiled.

Then, he continued, "This is an example of the emotional effect of music on people, even the most heinous person, the melody of a piece can change his natural emotions." ”

"Music affects people's emotions, and I believe that. But how does it affect people's minds or thinking? After all, thoughts are rational things. ”

After thinking for a few seconds, Professor Chen said: "When people experience the composer's life consciousness and emotional flow from the musical works and are infected by it, there will be a shock and violent emotional impact in the depths of the soul, so that the trembling heart will be renewed and regenerated, and will look at society and life in a new way, thus establishing a new standard for understanding and evaluating the meaning of life." ”

"Is it really going to build a new kind of values in the mind?" Qi Luoling was a little disbelieving and asked rhetorically.

"Of course, it has to do with the origin of music. Of course, when we talk about origins, we enter the philosophical realm. The Book of Rites and Music represents the Confucian aesthetic thought of musicians, and it discusses the origin of music in this way: "Those who make music are also those who give birth to people's hearts." Emotions are in the middle, so the form is in the sound; The sound is written, and it is called the sound. It is the voice of the old ruling world, peace and happiness, and its political peace; The voice of the troubled times, resentment and anger, and its political obedience; The voice of the dead country, mourning, and its people are in distress. The way of sound, humming politics. “

"What do you mean?"

"Every sound is produced in the human heart. Feelings are impulsive in the heart, which is expressed as sound, and the vocal combination of fragments and segments changes into a whole with a certain structure, which is called sound. Therefore, the sound of the peace of the world is full of comfort and joy, and its politics will be peaceful; In troubled times, the sound is full of resentment and anger, and its politics must be perverse; The voices of the dying and dying nations are full of sorrow and sorrow, and the people are miserable and hopeless. So music is connected to politics and is also a kind of ********. “

Qi Luoling nodded with understanding.

This theory was well debated in the ancient Greek philosophical system. In the minds of the ancient Greeks, music had an edifying function, which could purify the soul and make people good. ”

"Is music edifying?"

"Of course, Socrates said: for the body use sports, for the mind use music. Plato said as early as the Republic that rhythm and music penetrate into the depths of the human soul with the strongest force, and if the way of education is appropriate, they will infiltrate the soul with beauty. A well-educated person in music is quick to see the ugliness of the things of nature reflected in all works of art, but when he sees beautiful things, he appreciates them, and quickly absorbs them into his soul as nourishment, and thus ennobles his personality. ”

Professor Chan paused, then continued: "Aristotle, in Chapter 8 of his book Politics, also said that the moral and educational functions of music are particularly important, and that the educational role of music is more important than the pleasurable effect it produces. In the view of the theorists of ancient Greece, music has an orientation of ethical value, which is fully reflected in their control of music, and they should be wary of the "corrosion" of people by improper music. ”

Professor Chen spoke eloquently, and his words contained a very large amount of information, as well as a lot of philosophical thinking, Qi Luoling could not understand all of them, and she fell into thought.

"Whether from the perspective of philosophical theory or practical practice, the melody and rhythm of elegant music can indeed shape the righteous and beautiful soul, and even Plato proposed in his "Ideal Republic" that if you change the melody of music, the basic laws of the state will also change."

Qi Luoling looked at him in astonishment.

"You don't know much about this, that's normal. For example, music even represents the values of a country, and it also plays a pivotal role in the game between countries. ”

"What do you mean by that?"

"For example, in American diplomacy, music is the most powerful communication tool. It usually chooses countries with which ******** have serious differences or conflicts of values. In these countries, young people and marginalized audiences are the core target audiences. On the one hand, young people love music, are willing to accept new things, have not yet established fixed values, and their ideas will affect the future direction of the country, and taking them as the core public is very helpful to the effectiveness and long-term output of American ideas. On the other hand, young people are full of rebellion, and didactic propaganda can only backfire, while the anti-authority of jazz, rock, and hip-hop music can allow them to vent and resonate in music. “

"Seems to be the case." Qi Luoling thought for a moment and nodded.

For example, in the Jazz diplomacy of the Cold War, schools and the areas where young people lived were the main venues for performances, and all kinds of popular music penetrated the culture of young people through "Sounds of European Freedom", "********", "Sounds of Luxembourg", etc., which greatly annoyed the communist regimes in various countries. The interaction between musicians and young people makes the sharing of culture and ideas more fluid and free. In the history of U.S. public diplomacy, when its relations with other countries were at a freezing point (or unfriendly), music often acted as a "political vanguard" or experiment, conveying a message that politics could not be spoken or silenced about. As the saying goes, "When political parties are silent, it is time for artists to appear." Nowadays, China's public diplomacy is facing a variety of complex publics, and how to determine the core public and strategic public, and how to formulate different music diplomacy plans need further consideration. “

"You've done a lot of research." Qi Luoling nodded approvingly.

Professor Chen smiled and said, "In the same way, the era of mankind is inseparable from the development of music. I did my research on this, and I found a phenomenon. “

"What phenomenon?"

"I found that each era has its own music, and vice versa, each music has its own background of the era, and in each kind of music, you can hear the voice of that era and perceive the political culture of that era. For example, during World War II in Germany and Japan, and even during the **** period in China, people became so crazy and irrational, and the music of that era seemed to have been cursed by Satan. “

After speaking, Professor Chen smiled strangely at her. At this time, she suddenly noticed that there was a dark shadow on his face, and an inexplicable uneasiness welled up in her heart.

Professor Chen looked at the watch in his hand and said, "Almost, I have something to say goodbye first, if you still have any questions, you can go directly to the school to find it." “

"Thank you for bothering you. Nice to meet you. Qi Luoling said.

The two stretched out their hands to shake each other briefly, then said goodbye at the gate of the campus, and each left in their own direction.