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Abstract Revising music was Confucius’s unswerving ideal. After his return to Lu， he firstly played the music used in Zhou music piece by piece， transcribed the music originally used for rituals into songs that could be sung independently. Secondly， according to the standard of Zhou music， he revised the sound， pronunciation and characters of the 305 songs of Zhou music， and set four beginnings of poetry as the model. Thirdly， he cleared up the wrong forms in the music book of “Ya” and “Song” that confused rituals and music， and deleted a large number of redundant lyrical poems， so that “Ya” and “Song” were each in their own place. Confucius’s revision of music was transcribing the music book used by Lu musicians into a songbook that could be played with musical instruments， which determined the basic form of the current version of The Book of Poetry
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Received: 30 September 2024
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2024, Vol. 63 
