Chinese Guqin : Flowing water Guqin 流水 古琴曲

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 Sich