隋代初年,官吏们费了七年的工夫考究音律问题;当时们之中虽有一些真才实学的音乐家如万宝常、郑译等,但这些人的正确主张得不到皇帝的批准。政客何妥自己不懂音乐,却想不让别人取得成功;总怕一旦按别人的主张制成乐器进行演奏,有损于自己的名望和地 In the early Sui Dynasty, officials took seven years to study the problem of temperament. At that time, though some really talented musicians like Wanbao Chang and Zheng Yih were among them, the correct assertion of these people was not approved by the emperor. What politicians do not know their own music, but do not want others to succeed; always afraid once made according to the ideas of others musical instruments, detrimental to their own fame and place