Three Months Without Taste: When Music Transcended the Senses

After hearing the Shao music in Qi, Confucius forgot the taste of meat for three months, exclaiming he never thought music could be so perfect.

When the Master was in Qi, he heard the Shao, and for three months did not know the taste of flesh. He said, “I did not think that music could have been made so excellent as this.”

子在齐闻韶,三月不知肉味。曰:“不图为乐之至于斯也!”

Source: Theము Analects, Shu Er VII, Chapter 14

Author: The Compilers of The Analects & Confucius

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