Thought: Regarding Mozi's thought of "Non-Music", Mozi has specially written works, and the existing thirty-second book "Non-Music" of Mozi focuses on this theory. The idea of "non-music" is to ban music and oppose engaging in musical activities. Mozi believes that everything should benefit the country and the people, while the people and the country are struggling for survival. Making musical instruments needs to collect people's money and waste people's production, and music can also make people indulge in debauchery. Therefore, music must be banned.
Brief introduction of founder
Mozi (the year of birth and death is unknown), whose name is Zhai (dí), was a Song native at the end of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, the Spring and Autumn Period and the early Warring States Period. Mozi is a descendant of Mu Yi, a nobleman in the Song Dynasty, and served as a doctor in the Song Dynasty before his death. He was the founder of mohists and a famous thinker, educator, scientist and strategist during the Warring States Period.
Mozi is the only philosopher who was born as a farmer in China history. Mozi founded the Mohist school theory, which had a great influence in the pre-Qin period and was called "an outstanding scholar" with Confucianism. He put forward the viewpoints of "universal love", "non-attack", "Shang Xian", "Shang Tong", "ambition", "ghost", "death", "non-joy", "frugality" and so on. With universal love as the core, frugality and Shang Xian as the fulcrum. Mozi founded a set of scientific theories with outstanding achievements in geometry, physics and optics during the Warring States Period. At that time, a hundred schools of thought contended, which was called "non-Confucian Jimo". After Mozi's death, Mohism was divided into three schools: Xiangrichi's ink, Xiangfu's ink and Dengling's ink. According to the historical data of Mozi's life, his disciples collected his quotations and completed the book Mozi handed down from generation to generation.