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Mountains and Flowing Waters in Peking Opera

It is one of the classic songs in Peking Opera. In people's allusion practice, this allusion has gradually developed more than 70 allusions and allusions such as wonderful music, valuable friendship, hard to find friends, painful loss of friends, leisure and fun, etc. There is also the phenomenon of reverse use of allusions. "High Mountains and Flowing Waters" is a Chinese guqin tune, one of the top ten ancient Chinese tunes. It is said that Boya, a luthier in the pre-Qin Dynasty, once played the qin in a deserted mountain. Zhong Ziqi, a woodcutter, was able to understand that the music was depicting "mountain high as high as Mount Tai" and "yangyang". It looks like a river." Boya was surprised and said, "How wonderful, your heart is the same as mine. "After Zhong Ziqi's death, Bo Ya lost his close friend. He dropped his harp and lost all its strings. He never played again, so he wrote the song "High Mountains and Flowing Waters". "High Mountains and Flowing Waters" is a metaphor for a close friend or bosom friend, and also a metaphor for the sublime music. Later generations divided it into "High Mountains" and "Flowing Waters". The second piece; there is another zither piece with the same name, "Mountains and Flowing Waters", which has no inheritance relationship with the guqin piece.