"Fishing Boat Sings Evening" is an excellent traditional Zheng piece recognized by the music industry. The title is taken from the "Preface to Prince Teng's Pavilion" by Wang Bo, a poet of the Tang Dynasty, "The fishing boats sing late, and the sound echoes on the poor Pengli shore".

However, as to its origin, who its author and adapter are, it is a "public case" in the folk music world, and there are different opinions and no conclusion yet. Some say that guzheng master Lou Shuhua adapted it from the material of the ancient song "Return" from the Ming and Qing dynasties in the mid-1930s; others say that Shandong guzheng master Jin Zhuonan adapted Shandong's traditional folk song "Double Banner" in his early years. " and its variants "Flowing Water Stirring Stones" and "Three Rings Set the Sun" and other music adaptations; in the early 1980s, Jiang Baohai of Shandong Liaocheng Art Museum wrote an article that Jin Zhuonan based it on the local folk zheng song "Double Banner" and its After the adaptation of the two ditties that evolved from "Double Banner", they were "taught to Lou Shuhua, who adapted it slightly and became the current score." In 1986, guqin player Cheng Gongliang wrote an article in the 7th issue of "Music Magazine" It was revealed that he accidentally discovered the score of "Fishing Boats Sing Evening" by an old folk music performer who studied and recorded it with Lou Shuhua's teacher Wei Ziyu in Beijing in 1929. The discovery of this information makes it more difficult to conclude the formation of this famous song. .

The guzheng has a history of more than 2,000 years. Before "Fishing Boat Sings Evening", the ancient people used it to play mostly sad sounds, so it was also known as "Ai Zheng" or "Bitter Zheng". "Fishing Boat Sings Evening" can be said to be the first piece of music in the traditional guzheng repertoire to express a happy scene.