Chinese Guqin: Flowing Water Guqin (a type of guqin music)

Guqin song "running water" has a long history. In the Ming Dynasty Zhu Quan's "magic secret manual", the caption of "high mountain" and "running water" recorded that "high mountain" and "running water" had only one song. At the beginning, ambition cared about the high mountain and said that benevolent people liked the mountain. Later, ambition cared about the running water and said that wise people liked the water. In the Tang Dynasty, it was divided into two songs, with no number of segments. In the Song Dynasty, it was divided into four segments of "high mountain" and eight segments of "running water". Since then, there have been more than 30 kinds of musical scores published in running water. Their basic content and spirit come down in one continuous line, and they basically maintain the structure of 8 paragraphs. During the period from Xianfeng to Guangxu of the Qing Dynasty, Zhang Kongshan, a Taoist from Qingcheng, a Sichuan pianist, added a paragraph between the original fifth and sixth paragraphs to become the ninth paragraph

In the first paragraph, the whole song starts to flow, which vaguely implies the theme tone of the whole song. 2、 The third paragraph uses overtone to write all kinds of spring sounds of mountains, streams and waterfalls. 4、 The fifth section shows that the spring of thousands of gullies flows out of the mountain and into the flood, and gradually has a turbulent trend. Since the sixth section, the water flows into the vast ocean, and the rapids cross the gorge and beach, forming a momentum of rough waves and surging unstoppable, conveying the character of fearing difficulties and dangers and forging ahead bravely. 7、 The eighth segment is the afterwave after the climax, which is slow and urgent, released and closed from time to time, and gradually calmed down. The ninth paragraph is the finale of the passing weather. This piano song is full of the harmony between man and nature, and exudes the atmosphere of the harmony of nature, earth and people. This song has both lyricism and simulation, the combination of virtual and real, the integration of scenes and the lofty atmosphere.

On August 20, 1977, the Voyager spacecraft launched by NASA into outer space carried a gold-plated record that is said to have been preserved for 1 billion years, including the song "running water" played by Mr. Guan Pinghu, a famous pianist in China.