"Confucius Readings in Yi" is a treasure of Qin music. The whole music is divided into four sections, focusing on the positioning of heaven and earth, the intricacy of Yin and Yang, the harmony of hardness and softness, and the unity of heaven and man. The music of the piano is free and easy, embodying the Taoist thought of emptiness and the integration of man and nature. "Three Drunkens of Yueyang" "Three Drunkens of Yueyang" is based on the mythical story of Lu Dongbin getting drunk in Yueyang three times and flying across the Dongting. It reflects the Taoist thought of gods becoming Taoists and breaking away from reality. The melody is interesting and the phonology is smooth. It is the most important thing in piano music. The whole song has twenty sections. The music scores can be found in "Chuncaotang Piano Score", "Introduction to Piano Learning", "Liaofeng Hall Piano Score", etc. The scores are different from each other. According to the "Introduction to Qin Xue", this piece is an abridged version of "Yuhua Dengxian". The main paragraphs are similar, but the order is different. "Mozi's Sad Silk" The piano piece "Mozi's Sad Silk" is also known as "Mozi's Elegy", "Mozi", "Mozi's Sad Silk", etc. It is said to have been composed by Mo Zhai of the Lu State during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. This song is one of the great songs of the Guangling Qin School. The ability of "Mozi to mourn silk" can be seen in "Mozi: Dyeing": Mozi saw pure white silk dyed into various colors, which triggered his philosophical thinking about society and life. He believed that not only silk could be easily dyed into various colors, but the king of a country would also be affected by various influences, whether it was "fame overshadowing the world", "showing benevolence and righteousness", or "not doing wrong to the world". "Righteousness insults others" are all caused by external influences. "Shi" is no exception. Making careless friends is the greatest misfortune in life. Hence the exclamation that "therefore, one cannot be careless in staining". The music score was first seen in "Bo Ya Xin Fa" (1609) written by Yang Luan in the late Ming Dynasty. It is also included in "Wuzhizhai Qin Pu", "Zi Yuantang Qin Pu", etc. The music reflects Mozi's sentiment that people in the world follow their desires and cannot extricate themselves, just like pure silk dyed and losing its original appearance. The meaning of the music is profound and the music is pathos. This piece of music has a melodious tone, is thoughtful and sad, and has a generous melody, revealing a feeling of self-purification and self-love.
Guqin music "Flowing Water" "Flowing Water" is an ancient Qin music. In historical legends, people often associate it with Boya during the Warring States Period. It is said that Boya was an excellent folk musician. He played the harp well, "Bo Ya played the harp while the six horses were raising their heads." ("Xunzi Encouraging Learning") means that when Bo Ya played the harp, the grazing horses would raise their heads and listen. One time, when Boya was playing the harp, a man named Zhong Ziqi stood by and admired it. When Boya was thinking about the towering mountains, Zhong Ziqi said, "It's as good as playing the harp, as towering as Mount Tai." When yearning for the endless running water, Zhong Ziqi said, "It's so good to play the harp, and the soup is as good as running water." Zhong Ziqi was able to accurately understand Boya's feelings in the sound of the harp, making them feel like old friends at the first sight, and they formed a " bosom friend". After Ziqi's death, Boya was deeply saddened by the loss of his close friend and stopped playing the piano. This touching ancient legend also shows that the use of lyrical techniques to create musical works such as "Mountain" and "Flowing Water" may have existed in the third century BC. The earliest spread of the musical score "Liu Shui" can be found in the "Magical Secret Music Book" compiled and printed by Zhu Quan in the Ming Dynasty in 1425. Zhu Quan was the seventeenth son of Emperor Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang of the Ming Dynasty. "Magic Secret Music Score" is the earliest existing collection of guqin music scores in my country. But the song "Flowing Water" was produced much earlier. According to Zhu Quan's textual research in the book's title explanation: "The two songs "High Mountain" and "Flowing Water" are only one piece. In the Tang Dynasty, they were divided into two pieces without dividing the number of sections. In the Song Dynasty, "High Mountain" was divided into four sections, and "Flowing Water" was divided into four sections. "Eight sections." briefly explains the evolution of this piece of music in ancient times. There are currently 20 to 30 different notations and multiple playing styles of the musical "Flowing Water", but they all have similar themes or melody factors, which shows that they all rely on the same. Zhang Kongshan, a Sichuan Taoist priest in the 19th century, added the rolling brush technique to describe the turbulent water force in the music, which made the artistic image of the music more vivid. People call it "Seventy-two Rolling Blowing Waters". The qin music "Liu Shui" introduced in this book is based on the version circulated by Sichuan qin masters. It is included in the "Tianwen Pavilion Qin Pu" published in 1876. The musical "Flowing Water" is an outstanding work in my country's national music heritage. It does not stop at objective descriptions of natural scenery, but uses it to express people's thoughts and feelings, showing a broad-minded and unyielding spiritual realm.
In terms of musical performance, lyrical tunes are the main body, combined with the development of imitation, which not only displays gorgeous and novel skills, but also maintains a simple and melancholy style. On August 20, 1977, the United States launched two Voyager spacecraft, which scientists hope will one day encounter "human beings" beyond Earth. The spacecraft carries a gold-sprayed copper record, which is still as bright as new even after a billion years. The record contains twenty-seven world-famous musical works, including the Chinese Qin music "Flowing Water".