The Contemporary Echoes of “Technique Advancing into the Tao”: The Aesthetic Education Path of Guzheng Performance under the Perspective of Chinese Musical Aesthetics
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.53469/wjimt.2025.08(12).07Keywords:
“Technique Advancing into the Tao”, Music Aesthetics, Guzheng Performance, Aesthetic EducationAbstract
This paper aims to explore the practical path of the idea of "Technique Advancing into the Tao" in contemporary Guzheng aesthetic education from the theoretical perspective of Chinese music aesthetics. By analyzing the philosophical connotation of Chuang-Tzu's "Dismember an ox as skillfully as a butcher" and the unity of "Tao" and "Qi", this paper reveals the dialectical relationship between "technique" and "Tao", combined with the technical tendency of "emphasizing skills over art" existing in the current Guzheng performance and teaching practice, regaining the ontological value of "music, the expression of joy", following the practical path of "harmony", continuing to "Technique Advancing into the Tao" in the practice of aesthetic education in contemporary Guzheng performance, and sending out a deep echo of classical Chinese aesthetic thought.
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