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 | | During the Han dynasty, the classical philosophies of Confucianism, Daoism, and Legalism merged with theories of numerical correspondence and cosmic resonance to produce an intellectual synthesis that exerted a major influence on the political culture and institutions of later dynasties as well. |
 | | It was the emperor's responsibility to see that all official music was in proper pitch, and emperors sometimes changed the official reference pitch of state-sponsored music (from which scales would be derived) after taking office, especially in the case of founders of new dynasties. |
 | | By Han times, however, the #two had merged.# With close ties between yin-yang and the five agents on the one hand, and yin-yang and the eight trigrams on the other, it is hardly surprising that Han scholars sought to unify these three systems. |
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