The top ten famous Chinese guqin songs, the score was first seen in the Ming Dynasty "Magic Secret Pu" (1425), composed by Guo Chuwang, the founder of the Zhejiang School of Guqin in the Southern Song Dynasty. The author was a famous guqin performer, composer and educator in the Southern Song Dynasty.

"Xiaoxiang Water Clouds"
The music score was originally found in "Magic Secret Score", which is divided into ten sections. This music has been passed down to later generations, and there are many kinds of scores and some changes in structure. Now popular is the eighteen stanzas plus an ending. The whole piece blends with scenes and has profound meanings. It makes full use of the techniques of "singing, stroking, chanting, and commenting" in the performance of guqin, and embodies the subtle beauty of "clear, subtle, light, and distant" in the art of guqin. model.

"Guangling San"
Also known as "The Rest of Guangling", the music was originally a popular folk music at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty. It was speculated to be a large-scale instrumental ballade with the theme of Nie Zheng assassinating King Han during the Warring States Period. The structure shows a kind of impassioned heroism and is highly praised by the piano players.


"Mountain and Flowing Water"
According to the "Magic Secret Score", there are two songs of Gaoshan and Liushui. This is only one song. It is divided into two songs until the Tang Dynasty, and there are no subsections. It can be seen that the three pieces of "High Mountain and Flowing Water", "High Mountain" and "Flowing Water" are actually from the same qin piece. " and "Flowing Water" were compiled together, which is no longer an ancient song.

"Fisherman's Questions and Answers"
There are more than 30 versions of this song in the past dynasties, and some also have lyrics. The music expresses the fun of the fisherman in the middle of the green mountains and green waters. The score was first seen in "Xingzhuang Taiyin Sequel"

"Falling Wild Geese"
In the Ming Dynasty, this song was called "Yan Luo Ping Sha". The melody is melodious and smooth, and through the intermittent geese singing, it describes the scene of the geese hovering in the sky before landing.

"Sunny Spring and White Snow"
It shows the beauty of early spring when winter comes to spring, the earth recovers, and everything is thriving. The melody is fresh and smooth, and the rhythm is relaxed and lively. According to legend, it was made by Shi Kuang, a musician of Jin State during the Spring and Autumn Period, or Liu Juanzi of Qi State. "Yangchun" and "White Snow" in the existing piano scores are two instrumental pieces.

"Eighteen Shots of Hu Jia"
A piece based on the poem of the same name. The theme reflected is "Wenji returns to Han". During the war at the end of the Han Dynasty, Cai Wenji lived in the Southern Huns for twelve years. As the wife of Zuo Xian Wang, she misses her hometown very much. When Cao Cao sent someone to take her back to the mainland, she was reluctant to leave her two children. The joy of returning home was overwhelmed by the pain of parting, and she felt very conflicted.

"Three Stacks of Yangguan"
A qin song composed according to the poem "Send Yuan Er Envoy to Anxi" by Wang Wei (699~759), a poet in Tang Dynasty. The tone of this qin song is simple and full of passion, especially the octave jumps in the latter part of "Trent, Trent", and the continuous repeated presentation of "Li Kushui", etc., the emotion is real, exciting and gloomy , fully expressing the author's sincere feelings of infinite care and nostalgia for the friends who are about to travel far away.

"Three Plum Blossoms"
This song borrows objects to sing Huai, through the white, fragrant and cold-resistant characteristics of plum blossoms, to praise people with noble morals, the eccentric tunes in the song are repeated three times in different micro positions, so it is called "Three Nongs".

"Drunken Fishing Sings Evening"
The qin music composed by Tang poets Pi Rixiu and Lu Guimeng, the whole piece depicts the unrestrained drunken state of the fisherman, the material is refined and the structure is tight, it is a delicate piece of qin music. The popular genealogy is from Zhang Kongshan.