According to ethnomusicologist Lin Ku-fang: "What records you do find mostly contain descriptions of how to play music during court rituals and other occasions. It's not musical notation per se."
「傳統文獻裡能找到的，更多是在儀式等各種場合中，如何演奏音樂，而非音律本身的記述」，民族音樂學者林谷芳說。