Listening to music can take your mind off your troubles.
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history
Famous from Cao Cao's 《短歌行》: 何以解忧,唯有杜康 — 'What dispels my sorrow? Only Du Kang.' Du Kang was the legendary inventor of wine, so the line uses his name as a metonym for liquor. Per 《新华词典》: 解忧 = 排解心中的忧愁 ('to dispel the sorrow in one's heart').
culture
Title of Keigo Higashino's 2012 novel 《解忧杂货店》 (English: 'The Miracles of the Namiya General Store'), a bestseller in China — also a 2017 Sino-Japanese film adaptation. The phrase has been pulled into modern self-help branding.