Traditionally, music is considered a celebration of the Divine, and musical instruments as the messengers—the sacred tools—relaying the Divine word.
No matter what ethnicity or race, or what part of the world one may be from, everyone seems to understand the feelings that the universal language of music communicates. For instance, in ancient China—ages before the communist regime came into power—scholars and wise men used music to guide people’s emotions in a positive direction and uplift their moral character, bringing them closer to the Lord Creator.
It is interesting to know that the traditional Chinese character for happiness (樂, Lè) is similar to the character for music (樂, Yuè). Also, music and medicine have an integral connection, according to ancient Chinese thought. With calming music known for its healing properties since the early Chinese civilization, the character for “medicine” (藥, Yào) was derived from the word music, with the radical for “grass” or herbs (艹, Cǎo) at the top.
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