What is the most famous music in ancient China

1, "High Mountains and Flowing Water"

The allusion to "High Mountains and Flowing Water" first appeared in "Liezi - Tang Wen". In people's practice of using allusions, this allusion gradually developed more than seventy allusions and music, such as high and marvelous, precious to know each other, difficult to find the soulmate, painful loss of the soulmate, leisure interest and other allusions, and there is also the phenomenon of the allusion of the opposite use of the phenomenon.

"High Mountains and Flowing Water" is a metaphor for knowing one's soulmate or one's soulmate, as well as a metaphor for a skillful piece of music. It is divided into two songs, "High Mountains" and "Flowing Water"; there is another zheng song of the same name, "High Mountains and Flowing Water", which has no inheritance relationship with the guqin song.

2, "Ambush on Ten Sides"

The "Ambush on Ten Sides" is a large-scale pipa piece with historical themes, and it is one of the ten most important ancient Chinese pieces. There is no certainty as to the date of composition of the piece. It can be traced back to the Tang Dynasty, and in the famous poem "Pipa Xing," written by Bai Juyi (772-846), it is known that the author, Bai Juyi, had listened to pipa music, which was used to express fierce battle scenes.

The "Ambush on Ten Fronts," which has been widely circulated, is one of the traditional pipa compositions, and is also known as "Huaiyin Pingchu," or "Ambush on Ten Fronts. The earliest surviving sheet music of this piece is found in the Pipa Score compiled by Hua Qiuping in 1818 (also known as Hua Qiuping Pipa Score). The music depicts the battle of Gaixia in the Chu-Han War in 202 BC. The Han army defeated the Chu army with the formation of ambush from ten sides, Xiang Yu killed himself in Wujiang River, and Liu Bang won the victory.

3, "Yangchun Baixue"

"Yangchun Baixue" is one of the ten most famous Chinese songs and one of the ten most famous ancient Chinese songs. It is rumored to be a guqin piece made by Shikuang, a musician from the state of Jin, or Liu Juanzi from the state of Qi during the Spring and Autumn Period.

4, The Fisherman and the Woodcutter

The Fisherman and the Woodcutter is a famous Chinese guqin piece, one of the ten most famous ancient compositions in China.

5, "Autumn Moon in the Han Palace"

"Autumn Moon in the Han Palace" is one of the famous Ten Great Ancient Pipa Songs, but the history of the music is not long. Originally a pipa piece of the Chongming school, the theme the piece is meant to express is not very specific.

Many articles on this piece have vaguely stated that it aims to evoke sympathy for the plight of oppressed courtesans, and that it has a deep artistic impact. According to some articles, the song meticulously portrays the palace maiden facing the bright moon on an autumn night with infinite inner melancholy, revealing a strong desire for love.

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