Seeking ancient poetic quotes or idioms describing the beautiful and pleasant sound of the zither and the skillfulness of the instrument.

Poetry:

The jade of Kunshan shatters the phoenix's call, the hibiscus weeps and dews the fragrant orchid's smile. --- Tang Li He "Li Ping Konghou Quotation"

Noise and confusion, big pearls and small pearls fall from the jade plate. --- Tang Bai Juyi, "Pipa Xing"

Darkly wearing a clear minister, I knocked on the water jade, and crossed the sea with my moth-eyebrows holding a white deer. --- Tang Li He, "Listening to Ying Shi's Piano Song"

Wave your hand for me, as if you were listening to the pines of ten thousand ravines. --- Tang Li Bai, "Listening to the Monk Joon Playing the Qin"

Springing seven strings all over, ten thousand trees to clarify the shade. Chang Jian's "The Qin Xing on the River"

Chinese idioms:

Curling sound: describing music that is pleasant to the ear and mesmerizing to the ear.

Gao Shan Liu Shui (高山流水): a metaphor for a confidant or soulmate. It is also a metaphor for the high quality of music.

Huang Zhong Da Lu: Huang Zhong: the first of the six yang laws in the twelve rhythms of ancient Chinese phonetics. Da Lü: the fourth of the six yin rhythms. It describes music or speech as solemn, upright, subtle and harmonious.

Poor and extremely wonderful: describing exquisite to the extreme, mostly describing music.

Residual Sound, Three Days: Residual Sound: the aftertaste of music; Absolute: broken. It describes a high, beautiful and pleasant singing voice with an endless aftertaste.