The story behind the lyrics of "Qin Shi":

After the rebellion of the local officials in Guangdong and Guangxi was put down by the imperial court, some young men and women were taken back to the palace from the captured natives as usual, with women as palace maids and men as internal prison. Among them, there was a young man dressed in white, with a paulownia xylophone on his back, and his clothes fluttered like a fairy. After he entered the palace, he did not become an internal supervisor, but became a piano player of the king.

The heavy shackles on his feet indicate his status as a criminal. The chains are deeply embedded in his flesh, and a bloody trail emerges behind him when he walks. However, the metal buckle struck Zheng Ran with sound, just like his proudly raised head. The king sat high in the temple and looked at him with interest. For a moment, he ordered his close bodyguard to come forward and remove the shackles on the pianist's feet.

When the pianist died in his hometown, he twisted the music of joys and sorrows to make a piano piece, sat in the hut and played it leisurely, only when the strings sighed gently around the beam did he know what it meant to be involuntarily. No one will feed me a spoonful of hot porridge when I am sick, and no one will rush into my room when it rains, but the years still flow silently.

The prototype of a pianist

Zhong Yi, a native of Chu in the Spring and Autumn Period, was the earliest guqin player recorded in historical records, and was a court pianist for generations. When Chu and Zheng were at war in the Spring and Autumn Period, Zhong Yi of Chu State was captured by Zheng State and presented to Jin State. Jin Chenggong died in the 9th year (about 582 BC). When Jin Jinggong succeeded to the throne, he visited the army and met him. Jin Jinggong asked: Who is the man tied up and wearing the hat of the State of Chu?

Zhong Yi said, "Prisoners of Chu." Duke Jing asked again, "What's your surname?" Zhong Yi said, "My father is a Qin minister of Chu." Duke Jing ordered his men to untie the bell instrument, give him a piano and ask him to play. He played all the southern Chu tunes. Duke Jing asked again, "What kind of person is the King of Chu?" Zhong Yi said, "When the king was a prince, a surname taught him and eunuchs waited on him.

after getting up in the morning, play like a child; Sleep at night. I don't know anything else. " Fan Wenzi said to Jing Gong, "This prisoner of Chu is really a great gentleman. He said his father instead of his own name, which is ungrateful; Playing the piano only plays the music of Chu, which is not forgetting the old; When asked about the king, he only said about the childhood of the king of Chu, which was selfless. Only saying that his father is a minister of Chu is a sign of respect for the king of Chu. Don't forget this is benevolence, don't forget old faith, selflessness is loyalty, and respect for the monarch is respect. He has these four virtues, and he will certainly be able to do a good job in the big task given to him. " So Duke Jing of Jin treated him with courtesy to foreign envoys, and in order to promote reconciliation between the two countries, he was told to go back to Chu to negotiate peace. Zhong Yi was known as the Four Virtues Duke, and later generations took it as the hall name for offering sacrifices to their ancestors.