1. High mountains and flowing water, can’t be heard except by close friends means: the music is sublime, but it’s hard to understand unless it’s close friends. It’s a metaphor that close friends are hard to find.

2. "High mountains and flowing water cannot be heard except by close friends." This sentence is a famous saying of the patriotic poet Wen Tianxiang of the Southern Song Dynasty.

3. "High Mountains and Flowing Waters" comes from "Liezi·Tangwen":

1. "Bo Ya played the harp and played the harp, aiming to climb the mountain. Zhong Ziqi said: 'How good, E'e' It looks like Mount Tai. 'Aiming at the flowing water, he said: 'How good it is that the ocean looks like a river.'

2. Vernacular translation: Boya is good at playing the piano, and Zhong Ziqi is good at listening. Thinking of the mountains, Zhong Ziqi exclaimed: "Great, they look as tall as Mount Tai!" "Bo Ya was thinking about Liu Shui. Zhong Ziqi cheered again: "Okay! It’s as mighty as the Yangtze River! "

Extended information:

1. The allusion of "high mountains and flowing water" was first seen in "Liezi·Tangwen". In people's practice of using allusions, this allusion gradually developed more than seventy There are also allusions to the classic form and music, such as the value of knowing each other, the difficulty of finding a close friend, the pain of losing a close friend, and the leisurely taste. ?

2. "High Mountains and Flowing Waters" is a Chinese guqin song. One of the top ten ancient Chinese songs. It is said that Boya, a luthier in the pre-Qin Dynasty, was playing the zither in the wilderness. Zhong Ziqi, a woodcutter, was able to understand that the music was describing "the mountains are as high as Mount Tai" and "the ocean is as bright as rivers". : "It's good that your heart is the same as mine. "After Zhong Ziqi's death, Bo Ya lost his close friend, dropped his qin and cut off the strings, and never played again, hence the song "High Mountains and Flowing Waters".

3. "High Mountains and Flowing Waters" is a metaphor for a close friend or close friend, and also a metaphor for the sublime music. Later generations It is divided into two pieces: "High Mountain" and "Flowing Water"; there is also a zither piece with the same name, "High Mountain and Flowing Water", which has no inheritance relationship with the guqin piece.