Legionary Extraordinary short - "Right Music"
Added 2023-12-30 23:06:27 +0000 UTCA very specific joke that I came up with when reading 中国古代礼仪文明 by Peng Lin. It was a good read, though unfortunately has no English translation that I know of.
Zhou ritual culture (AKA traditional Confucianist) had a very particularly let's say interesting understanding of music, which is kinda funny when you think about it but also hmmm kinda cop behaviour ain't it? Then again, even I doubt even the most ardent late imperial Chinese neo-Confucianist could muster that much issue over music without raising some eyebrows.
I wonder if similar thoughts existed in any other pre-modern, ancient societies as much. Since complaining about the youths is often so universal, you have to think being mad about the wrong kind of music has to be also. I recall about Roman having a real fit about Egyptian or general "eastern" music too.
This is also inspired by a particularly famous poem from the Book of Poetry, because despite its status as one of the Holy Scriptures(tm) it is ultimately a compendium of folk songs too, but I'm already ruining the joke by explaining this too much hahaha
