"Mountain Flowing Water", a guqin song of Han nationality, belongs to one of the top ten ancient songs in China. It is a metaphor for a bosom friend or confidant, and it is also a metaphor for the beauty of music. So who is the hero of this story? What kind of story is it?
Zhong Ziqi and Yu Boya are the protagonists of Rivers and Flows, and their allusions were first seen in Liezi Tang Wen. In people's practice of using allusions, this allusions has gradually developed into more than 70 allusions, such as lofty music, precious knowing each other, difficult to meet a bosom friend, painful loss of a bosom friend, and carefree feelings, and there is still the phenomenon of using allusions in reverse.
Legend has it that Yu Boya, a pianist in the pre-Qin period, once played the piano on a barren land, but Zhong Ziqi, a woodcutter, can understand that this is a description of "ambition in the mountains" and "running water with ambition". Boya was surprised and said, "Well, my son's heart is with me." After the death of the hippo chef, Boya lost her bosom friend, her piano broke and she didn't exercise for life, so there was a song of mountains and flowing water.
During the Spring and Autumn Period, there was a man named Yu Boya, who was proficient in temperament and superb in piano skills. He was a famous pianist at that time. When Yu Boya was young, he was smart and eager to learn. He has learned from others and his piano skills have reached the level. But he always feels that he can't express his feelings about all kinds of things in a superb way. After Yu Boya's teacher knew his idea, he took him to Penglai Island in the East China Sea by boat, so that he could enjoy the natural scenery and listen to the waves of the sea. Yu Boya looked up and saw the waves surging and splashing; Seabirds are roaring and singing; The lush trees in the forest are like entering a fairyland. A wonderful feeling arises spontaneously, as if the harmonious and beautiful music of nature rises in my ear. He couldn't help playing the piano, and his voice turned at will, blending the beauty of nature with the sound of the piano. Yu Boya experienced an unprecedented realm. The teacher told him, "You have learned."
One night boating in Boya. Facing the cool breeze and bright moon, he was full of thoughts, so he played the piano again, and the sound of the piano was melodious and getting better. Suddenly I heard someone screaming on the shore. When Boya heard the sound, he got out of the boat and saw a woodcutter standing on the shore. Knowing that the man was a bosom friend, he immediately invited the woodcutter aboard and played for him with great interest. Boya played a tune praising the mountains, and the woodcutter said, "How wonderful! Majestic and solemn, such as Mount Tai towering into the clouds! " When he played the surging waves, the woodcutter said, "How wonderful! Vast and boundless, it seems to see rolling water and boundless sea! " Boya was very excited and said excitedly, "bosom friend!" You are really my bosom friend. "This woodcutter is Zhong Ziqi. Since then, the two have become very good friends.
The two agreed to meet here this time next year. The next year, Boya went to the meeting as scheduled, but she couldn't wait long. So Boya found it along Zhong Ziqi's last way home. On the way, he met an old man and asked about Zizi's family. After this inquiry, I realized that this old man is the father of the hippo chef. The old man told Boya that he had to chop wood and study when he was a child, and his family was poor, so he died half a month ago. When I died, I was worried that Boya would wait here for a long time and told the old man to inform Boya on this day. I was heartbroken after hearing the news. He followed the old man to Zi Qi's grave and played the pipa to mourn his best friend. At the end of the song, he broke the piano at the grave of the hippo chef and vowed never to touch it again in his life. From then on, Boya met his bosom friend and thanked him for playing the piano. Later, a memorial hall called Qintai was built here. Now Qintai is adjacent to Guishan Mountain in the east and Moon Lake in the west, which is a famous historical site in Wuhan.