Cai Yong, courtesy name Bojie, is a famous writer, historian, musician and calligrapher in Chinese history. Cai Yong's "Jiaowei Qin" has been famous for centuries, and the story about Cai Yong's rescue of the piano has also been widely circulated among the people, with different opinions.

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Emperor Xian of Han once worshipped Zuo Zhonglang, so later generations also called him "Cai Zhonglang". Cai Yong is an upright person, with an honest and honest character, and his eyes cannot contain sand. For some bad phenomena, he always dares to speak bluntly to Emperor Ling. In this way, he contradicted the emperor more times, and the emperor gradually hated him. In addition, the eunuchs around Lingdi also hated and feared his integrity. They often slandered in front of Lingdi that he was arrogant and arrogant, and that he might rebel sooner or later. Cai Yong's situation became more and more dangerous. . He knew that he had become a thorn in the Emperor's eyes and a thorn in his flesh, and he was in danger of being harmed at any time, so he packed his luggage, escaped from the capital by water, and came to Wudi far away, where he went into seclusion.
Cai Yong is fond of music, and he is also proficient in rhythm and classical. If there is a slight error in playing, he will not escape his ears. Cai Yongyou is good at playing the qin, and has a lot of research on the qin. He has a set of incisive and unique opinions on the selection, production and tuning of the qin. When he escaped from the capital, he gave up a lot of belongings, but he was always reluctant to leave the beloved qin at home and take it with him, taking care of it from time to time.
In those days when he lived in seclusion in Wu, Cai Yong often played the qin, and used the sound of the qin to express his grief and anger that he was persecuted because his ambitions could not be repaid, and lamented the despair of a hopeless future.
One day, Cai Yong was sitting in the room playing the piano and sighing. The landlady was cooking in the stove next door. She stuffed the firewood into the stove, sparks jumped around, and the firewood was burned with a "crackling" sound.
Suddenly, Cai Yong heard a crisp cracking sound coming from the next door. He couldn't help being startled. He raised his head and pricked his ears to listen carefully for a few seconds. When he came to the fire, Cai Yong didn't care about the people who were on fire, he stretched out his hand and pulled out the paulownia wood that had just been stuffed into the stove as firewood, and shouted loudly, "Don't burn it, don't burn it, this is a piece of wood. It's a rare and good material for making a qin!" Cai Yong's hand was burned, and he didn't feel any pain, so he was pleasantly blowing and touching it on the paulownia wood. Fortunately, the rescue was timely and the paulownia was still intact, so Cai Yong bought it. Then it was meticulously carved, meticulous and painstaking, and finally this piece of paulownia was made into a piano. When played, this piano has a wonderful tone that is unparalleled in the world.
This qin has been handed down and has become a rare treasure in the world. Because its tail was burnt, people called it "Jiaoweiqin".
Later, there was a couplet saying: "Emperor Ling has no pearls to go to a good general, and Jiao Tong is fortunate to cut a famous qin".

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"New Story" Jiao Weiqin Author: Otaki
During the reign of Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty, there was a Confucian scholar named Cai Yong in Chenliu District. In order to study, Cai Yong said goodbye to his parents and went to study in Luoyang, the capital of the capital.
After Cai Yong became an official, he devoted himself to the study of Confucianism and made many useful suggestions to the court. Later, he wrote many times to expose the malpractices of current politics, offended the emperor, and also annoyed the officials of power, and was expelled from the court. Soon, the court arrested him again and put him in prison. Cai Yong then fled the capital. This day, the weather was very hot. Cai Yong walked for a long time without seeing anyone. He was hungry and sleepy, so he rested in the shade under a cliff.
After a while, Cai Yong fell asleep leaning against the stone wall. In a daze, he heard the sound of water droplets: "ding---dong---dingdingdongdong---dingdongdong---" The sound was very rhythmic and clear and loud, he suddenly came to the spirit, and followed the steps. Find the sound. I saw the stone rock cliffs are about ten feet high, and there is a wide stone crevice from the top to the foot. There is a round water pool under the rock, and there is a pool of clear water in the pool. The sound of dripping water echoed in this rock cavity, which was really nice.
He was so drunk that he forgot that he was on the run. He picked up the water and took a few sips, ah, it was so cool, he felt refreshed all over his body, and immediately regained his energy. Suddenly, a smiling white-haired old man stood behind him, and he was busy saluting the old man. I saw the old man wearing a bow and arrow on his waist and holding a hunting fork, and he had already hunted some pheasants and hares. Through the conversation, I learned that the old man's surname was Lin and he was a hunter. Elder Lin liked Cai Yong very much, so he invited him to be a guest at home. When he arrived at the old man Lin's house, Cai Yong met the old man Lin's wife and granddaughter Luyu. A family of three busy cooking.
The stove for cooking in this place is different from that on the plain. The fire door of the stove is very large, and some logs can be put in and burned without opening. Seeing that their family of three was busy cooking, Cai Yong walked out of the wood door to enjoy the deep mountain scenery, and seemed to hear the sound of water droplets in his ears.
Suddenly, Cai Yong heard the sound of wood burning in the kitchen, which was very special, as if it had touched his nerve, and he shouted in a hurry: "Don't burn, quickly put out the fire!" Cai Yong rushed to the kitchen. The burning wood was dragged out and watered to put out the fire. The old man Lin's family of three were stunned by his exclamations and unstoppable actions, and looked at him blankly. At this time, Cai Yong realized his gaffe, and hurriedly greeted the old man Lin's family, saying that this piece of wood was useful, but it was a pity to burn, and asked the old man to give him this piece of wood.
Cai Yong first dragged the charred wood, stared at it in the courtyard, and then chopped it down with a knife and axe. Luyu guarded him curiously and asked what use this wood was for. He asked Luyu if he understood music, but Luyu shook his head and said he did not understand.
After many days of fiddling around, Cai Yong finally made the piece of wood into a qin, but the tail of the qin still had traces of scorch, hence the name Jiaoweiqin. The sound quality of this qin is particularly good, better than the famous qin in the palace. Cai Yong played and sang, and the three of them were stunned.
Lin Lao looked at it and sighed, "Unfortunately, I still don't know what kind of wood this wood is. Mr. Cai, do you understand?" Cai Yong shook his head. Just like with people, it doesn't matter what the official rank is, it only depends on whether he is a talent. The old man Lin took it seriously and wanted to marry his granddaughter Luyu to him. Cai Yong said, I am a person being hunted down by the imperial court, and I must not harm the green jade. The old man Lin said, "The sky is high and the emperor is far away. I, the villager of Yamano, don't know what fugitives are." However, Cai Yong never agreed. However, Cai Yong avoided trouble here for more than half a year, got along well with the old man Lin's family, and even turned Lvyu into a musical genius.

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Once, when Cai Yong was passing by Wu County, he saw a porter tied with three wooden sticks on a tripod by the river, and hung a large iron pot to boil water. After the fire was lit, he went to fetch water. The burning wood emits a characteristic aroma of sycamore wood in the crackling sound. Cai Yong stepped forward curiously and saw that a piece of old paulownia was on fire and was burning. He quickly pulled out the piece of wood and extinguished the fire, holding it in both hands, looking at it carefully, and loving it.
At this time, the porter who started the fire came back and asked Cai Yong why he had pulled out the wood for the fire. Cai Yong said: "Do you know? This is a very good sycamore wood, which is a good material for making a qin, but you are burning it as firewood. Are you willing to sell it? How much?" The porter said, "Since you are useful, then Take it and use it." Cai Yong thanked the porter deeply.
When I returned to my place of residence, I began to carve it into a lyre. Because the tail of the piano was just in the scorched place, it was named "Jiaowei Qin". This "Jiaowei Qin" is listed as one of the four famous ancient Chinese qin together with the "Zhongqin" of Duke Huan of Qi, the "Zhuangliang Qin" of King Zhuang of Chu, and the "Lvqi Qin" of Sima Xiangru.