The wisdom of the ancients is not only reflected in the classical music, but the music also reflects the unique sentiments of the ancients. The top ten famous songs include: "High Mountains and Flowing Waters", "Three Plum Blossom Alleys", "Autumn Moon in the Han Palace", "White Snow in Spring", "Sunset Flute and Drums", "Questions and Answers of Fishermen and Woodcutter", "Eighteen Beats of Hujia", "Guangling San", "Pingsha Falling Geese" and "Ambush from Flying Daggers". 》. Each song is very charming and has a different story.
There is an allusion in "High Mountains and Flowing Waters" from "Liezi Tangwen". In the allusion, the pre-Qin harp player Boya played the harp in the wilderness. Only the woodcutter Zhong Ziqi understood the meaning of Boya's harp sound. "It looks like Mount Tai" and "The ocean looks like a river". Boya was shocked in his heart: "How wonderful, my heart is the same as mine." He met his close friend, but after Zhong Ziqi's death, Boya dropped his qin and cut off the strings. He was devastated by the loss of his close friend and never played again for the rest of his life. In later generations, it was divided into two pieces: "High Mountain" and "Flowing Water". There is also a zheng piece with the same name, "High Mountain and Flowing Water".
"Sunset Flute and Drum" is also known as "Spring River Flower Moonlight Night", "Xunyang Song" or "Xunyang Pipa". The euphemistic melody and changeable rhythms of the music vividly show the charming scenery of the Spring River on a moonlit night, and the feelings of the scenery of the south of the Yangtze River are all in it. "White Snow in Spring" is a widely circulated pipa song, which is said to have been composed by Shi Kuang, a music sage from the Jin Dynasty during the Spring and Autumn Period. This piece of music mainly expresses the scene of the earth's recovery as winter turns to spring, so the style of the music is lively and brisk.
"Three Plum Blossom Songs" is also known as "Plum Blossom Song". According to legend, it was originally a flute piece composed by Hengyi and later adapted into a guqin piece. The song is divided into ten sections and two parts. The music mainly praises people with high integrity through the white fragrance and cold resistance of plum blossoms. There is a section in the song that is repeated three times, so it is called "Three Plum Blossoms". "Autumn Moon in the Han Palace" was originally a pipa song of the Chongming School. Nowadays, the popular performance forms include erhu music, guzheng music, pipa music, and Jiangnan silk and bamboo music. This piece of music mainly expresses the resentment and sadness of ancient palace ladies who were oppressed.
"Qiao Qiao Qiao Qiao" is a guqin piece with more than 30 versions, some of which also have lyrics. This piece has finely tuned the melody with Qin Jia's lyrics in the Qing Dynasty. It became an independent instrumental piece and also described the conversation between the fisherman and Geoff with a smooth repartee melody. "Eighteen Beats of Hujia" is a long poem composed by Cai Wenji, the daughter of the famous writer and guqin player Cai Yi, describing her tragic life experience and homesickness. 1Eighteen beats are eighteen songs, one beat is one chapter, and there are eighteen chapters in total. The mood of the music is sad and exciting, and the theme expressed is "Wen Ji returns to the Han Dynasty".
"Guangling San", also known as "Guangling Zhixi", is a large-scale ancient qin music. There is an allusion: Ji Kang, a qin master in the Wei and Jin Dynasties, was famous for his ability to talk about lyrics and music. The nun asked me to learn this poem, but I, Jin Gu, refused to do so. "Guangling San" is now extinct. "Luoyan Luoyan on Pingsha" was called "Luoyan Pingsha" in the Ming Dynasty and is a guqin piece. The tune is melodious, and through the disappearing and appearing wild geese, it describes the scene of the swallows circling in the sky as they land.
"Ambush from Flying Daggers" is a traditional pipa song, also known as Huaiyang Stop. It mainly describes the scene during the decisive battle. The music is intense and shocking. This pipa song is also very representative, and it is still the most representative traditional Chinese song in the field of pipa performance.