In a column on the first year of the Shoko era (Lu) compiled in "Chunqiu Zuoshi Zuan," it is described that, 'The former emperor composed music using Gosetsu (五節), using it to educate people.'
また、『春秋左氏伝』昭公(魯)元年条に「先王之楽、所以節百時也、故有五節。遅速、本末以相及。」とある。