The music of JS Bach Influenced by the Chinese

I read a decade ago that JS Bach's THE WELL-TEMPERED KLAVIER had been preceded by the Chinese in the Ming Dynasty.

Chu Tsai-Yu invented 'Equal Temperament In Music' in 1584, an idea that filtered to the West through Pere Marin Mersenne's book ' Harmonie Universelle in 1636).
JS Bach seized upon the idea...

Source: CHINA---3,000 YEARS OF SCIENCE, DISCOVERY AND INVENTION
by Robert Temple (1st published in UK by Patrick Stephens Ltd in 1986-Foreword by Dr Joseph Needham, world authority on Chinese civilisation)
ISBN 978 315 174066 5339.

I ain't right
all the time
if I were wrong
I'd cause none any harm:

a hybrid I am-
just human

I'll be silent
   glide with the moment

   I'll feel
  with fulness of heart
  from distraction
  set apart

I'll love
words would be superfluous
will you regard
that I deserve?

all the world
is nothing
only you and I:
we're everything

Such a common error:
to take the major
as minor
and the latter
as the former

Don't say 'love'
when the proper word
is 'like'
meaning it does hurt

Because
it has been uttered
it ceases
to be sacred

Every life
has a gap
unbridgeable:
the wish
is not achievable
but such so few
will accept-
human nature
this is--with no exception -

life--the chasm
beyond
the reach of reason

we each seem
lost in the dark
seeking a spark
of light
for deliverance
while time
looks askance
in indifference

so much
of life
is lived
(in silence)
in dreams
too many
that are broken.