"Flowing Water" is an ancient qin song. In historical legends, people often associate it with Boya during the Warring States Period.

According to legend, Boya was an excellent folk musician. He played the qin well, "Bo Ya drums the qin, while the six horses look up at their socks." ("Xunzi: Encouraging Learning") It means that when Bo Ya plays the qin, all the horses grazing will raise their heads to listen. Once, when Boya was playing the qin, a man named Zhong Ziqi stood by and admired it. When Boya was thinking about the towering mountains, Zhong Ziqi said, "It is as good as a drum and qin, and it is as majestic as Mount Tai." When Boya yearned for the rushing water, Zhong Ziqi said, "It is as good as a drum and qin. The soup is like running water." Zhong Ziqi was able to accurately understand Boya's feelings in the sound of the qin, so that they became friends at first sight. t-period postmortem. Boya was deeply saddened by the loss of his bosom friend, and never played the piano again. This moving ancient legend also shows that the use of lyrical techniques to create musical works such as (High Mountains and Flowing Water) may have existed in the third century BC.

The earliest recorded qin music (Liu Shui) can be found in the "Magic Secret Pu" compiled and printed by Zhu Quan in the Ming Dynasty in 1425. Zhu Quan is the seventeenth son of Zhu Yuanzhang, the first emperor of the Ming Dynasty. But "Flowing Water" was produced much earlier. According to Zhu Quan's textual research in the inscription of the book: "The two pieces of "High Mountain" and "Flowing Water" are only one piece, and until the Tang Dynasty were divided into two pieces, without number of segments. Until the Song Dynasty, "High Mountain" was divided into four paragraphs. "Flowing Water" It is eight stanzas." It briefly explains the evolution of this piece of music in ancient times. The qin piece "Flowing Water" currently has 20 or 30 kinds of scores and various performance styles, but they all share similar themes or melody factors, which shows that they have something in common. In the 19th century, Sichuan Taoist priest Zhang Kongshan added rolling techniques to describe the rushing water. It makes the artistic image of the music more distinct, and people call it (Seventy-two rolling water). The qin piece "Liu Shui" introduced in this book is based on the version circulated by the qin masters of the Sichuan school. It was published in 1876 (Tianwenge qin score).

The qin piece "Flowing Water" is an excellent piece of Chinese folk music heritage. It does not stop at the objective description of natural scenery, but expresses people's thoughts and feelings, showing an open-minded and irreversible spiritual realm. The main body of music is lyrical tunes. Combined with the imitative development, it not only displays gorgeous and novel skills, but also maintains a simple and depressing style.

On August 20, 1977, the United States launched two "Voyager" spacecraft, which scientists hope will one day encounter "humans" beyond Earth. There is a gold-sprayed copper record on the spacecraft, which is still as bright as new even after a billion years. There are twenty-seven world-famous pieces of music recorded on the album. Among them is the Chinese qin piece "Flowing Water".