Gu Qing, a Taoist, said that family music pursues nature, calmness, emptiness and tranquility, and shows the spiritual realm of not being tired of things and being detached from the world. It sounds like walking in the clouds, the feeling of harmony between man and nature, and the taste has the idea of returning to nature. Taoist music is known as "the sound of nature". Whether it's solemn praise of immortals, ethereal and quiet cultivation of the mind, majestic and naive, or lamenting and pitying the dead, the rhymes and words of different emotions have corresponding prosodic forms to express them. As Xu Dachun, a master musician in the Qing Dynasty, said in Yuefu Biography, his voice "flies against the sky and watches, visits Taixu, and aims to rush to the desert and be proud of the universe". Regarding the characteristics of Taoist music and its difference from folk music, Professor Sun Fan, who specializes in Taoist music research, said: "If Taoist music is a special kind of music, it is relative to folk music." "Taoism is an art that combines Taoist concepts, Taoist teachings, Taoist worship, Taoist feelings, Taoist spirit and Taoist rituals. Taoist music is not an art form that our secular society understands for appreciation, but a' language' that they can't express in words. It is a' voice' with special significance created to communicate with the gods. " As far as the overall style is concerned, the melody of Daole does not fluctuate greatly, and the melody is smooth as running water, solemn, quiet and elegant. This fully embodies the characteristics of Taoism, which is simple and quiet. What are the characteristics of Taoist music? Professor Zheng De thinks that why Taoist music should be played in Taoist fasting ceremony should be related to the ritual and music system followed in ancient China. Book of rites? There is a cloud in Le Shu: "All voices are born by people's hearts, and things are smooth when people move." Moved by things, it is shaped by sound, and the sound corresponds, so it becomes square, which is called the sound; It's fun to listen to the sound. Dry your feathers. It's called joy. "Although music is the expression of people's inner feelings, it also comes from the influence of external objective things on people's emotions. Because things are constantly changing according to certain natural laws or laws, the influence they can bring to people is also different, so the sound will change accordingly. So we usually speak, or we may think about it and remember whether the speaker is intentional or not. But as the expression of music itself, it really expresses a person's inner mood or emotional changes. Then, in religious ceremonies, it is appropriate to express our inner feelings or our sincerity in the direct and simple way of music. On the other hand, Taoism had a set of perfect music theories in its early days. As "Taiping Zhang Qingling" said: "Musicians, small and small, get their meaning, musicians, musicians also; People who get what they want from Chinese people are ruled by music; Meaningful people in the world will be happy. " He also said, "If you enjoy yourself, you can enjoy the world. ":get what you want, you can make peace, you can eliminate evil; The one who gets the idea is the coke man. This shows the importance of music in Taoist fasting ceremony. Therefore, the reason why music runs through the whole ceremony in Taoist fasting is not only related to the ritual and music system followed in ancient China, but also closely related to the early Taoist theory that "harmony is the most important thing". The book Song of the Blue Sky-The Original Sound of Nature illustrates the importance of Taoist music based on Lingbao's Experience and Economic Achievements in Qing Dynasty and Ji Geng's Ode to Ming Dynasty. The content is: In the past, when the heaven was respected at the beginning of the blue sky, and the songs were lost, and the primitive people were taught the infinite sound of nature, there was this kind of natural joy. The blue sky lingered, the sky flowed, the divine wind stirred and the sound echoed. This was a process of sutra transmission at that time. At that time, all the songs were wordless, so the five old gods in heaven were ordered to follow the pen, so there was no song, no song and no song. These songs are called "The Lost Songs of Brahma", that is, the songs sung by Cheng Shangqing, Liu Jia's Flying Soul Chapter, Lingbao Chapter, and Guishan's Jade Inspection Ode. These lyrics gradually add some immortal words, deeds of respecting righteousness, formulas of correcting truth, and so on. Scholars should pay attention and be proficient in the future. These are the origins of Taoist music. In a word, Taoist music is elegant but not secular, and it pays attention to inner spiritual cultivation without losing its splendor.