Ruan is an ancient plucked string instrument in China, the land of China and spread with Ruan related or romantic or beautiful story.Emperor Taizong of Song ordered people to Change Ruan to Wuxian, which to some extent promoted its popularity among the literati of the Song Dynasty. This paper studies the harp music in the eyes of scholars in Song Dynasty on the basis of their CI poems about Ruan in Song Dynasty, combined with the results of the research on musical archaeology and musical images, hoping to reveal the features of Ruan music in the eyes of scholars in Song Dynasty, and a preliminary study after the song and Yuan Dynasty why Ruanxian gradually disappeared in people’s music life.

Han Liwei. Ruan in the eyes of Song Dynasty Literati. Frontiers in Art Research (2021) Vol. 3, Issue 7: 39-42. https://doi.org/10.25236/FAR.2021.030709.

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