Ritual lyric is the music ode which is created to meet the needs of the ritual activities in feudal dynasty. Because its special function is to meet the need of the ritual activities, it emphasizes the consistency of ritual activities in content, uses elegant four-character phrases in forms, and has procedural, dependent, organizational and synchronic features in transmission. Cultural function and transmission characteristics of ritual lyric decide the limits of its communication effect, so it cannot be compared with entertainment lyrics in development of spreading scope and duration of propagation time. People's acceptance of the ritual lyric is mainly from symbolic pattern and image structure of content, whether melodious or not is not important.