中国古代音乐文献产生与发展的历史,自始至终受到两个决定性因素的制约、影响和促进。一个是文献的内容反映着音乐艺术的发展水平;另一个是文献形制、类型与整个文献生产方式的演变。所以,在与中国音乐史和中国书史阶段划分大致吻合的前提下,可以把中国古代音乐文献的历史分成萌芽、产生、发展和鼎盛四个时期。 The history of the generation and development of Chinese ancient music literature has been constrained, influenced and promoted by two decisive factors. One is that the contents of the literature reflect the development of the art of music; the other is the evolution of the form and type of literature and the mode of production of the whole literature. Therefore, on the premise of roughly matching with the division of Chinese music history and Chinese book history, the history of Chinese ancient music literature can be divided into four periods: emergence, emergence, development and peak.