High mountains and flowing water should be regarded as the highest state of friendship.
In the Spring and Autumn Period, there was a man named Yu Boya who was proficient in music and had superb piano skills. He was a famous luthier at that time. When Yu Boya was young, he was smart and studious. He once studied with masters and his piano skills reached a certain level. However, he always felt that he could not express his feelings about various things superbly. After Boya's teacher knew his thoughts, he took him by boat to Penglai Island in the East China Sea, allowing him to appreciate the scenery of nature and listen to the sound of the waves of the sea. Boya raised his eyes and looked up, and saw turbulent waves and splashing waves; seabirds flying and singing in his ears; mountains and forests, lush and green, as if they were in a fairyland. A wonderful feeling arises spontaneously, as if the harmonious and beautiful music of nature is playing in my ears. He couldn't help but pick up the piano and play it, turning the notes at will, blending the beauty of nature into the sound of the piano. Boya experienced an unprecedented realm. The teacher told him: "You have learned."
One night Boya took a boat trip. Facing the breeze and the bright moon, he had a lot of thoughts, so he played the piano again. The sound of the piano was melodious and gradually became better. Suddenly I heard someone on the shore shouting. When Boya heard the sound and walked out of the boat, he saw a woodcutter standing on the shore. Knowing that this man was a close friend, he immediately asked the woodcutter to come on board and play for him enthusiastically. Boya played a melody praising the mountains, and the woodcutter said: "It's so good! It's majestic and solemn, like Mount Tai soaring into the clouds!" When he played to express the surging waves, the woodcutter said again: "It's so good! It's so vast and vast, it's like seeing rolling water and the boundless sea!" Boya became excited and said excitedly: "My soulmate! You are really my soulmate." This woodcutter is Zhong Ziqi. From then on, the two became very good friends.
The story comes from "Liezi·Tang Wen". The idiom "high mountains and flowing water" is a metaphor for a close friend or close friend, and also a metaphor for beautiful music.
Guan Bao Zhijia
Meaning: During the Spring and Autumn Period, Qi people Guan Zhong and Bao Shuya knew each other best. It is often used as a metaphor for a close friend. < /p>
Have you ever heard of the saying “cutting seats”?
"Guan Ning and Hua Xin were hoeing vegetables in the garden. They saw a piece of gold on the ground. Guan swung the hoe and it was the same as the tiles and stones. Hua caught it and threw it away. They also tasted reading at the same table, and there was a piece of gold on the ground. Those who have passed the exam would rather read as before, and would rather sit down and sit separately, saying, "You are not my friend!"
Translated into vernacular: Guan Ning and Hua Xin** *Things that happened when we both studied under Chen Shi, a famous scholar in the late Han Dynasty. At that time, the two were very close, but one time when they were hoeing vegetables in the field, they saw a piece of gold in the field. Guan Ning turned a blind eye, but Hua Xin picked up the gold, looked at it, and then threw it away. Another time, noble people passed by the door in carriages and horses, which was very lively. Guan Ning sat quietly reading, but Hua Xin dropped the book and ran out to read. Because of these two things, Guan Ning broke off all relations with Hua Xin and said, "You are not my friend."
This illustrates a principle of making friends: Don’t make friends with like-minded people.
There are close friends in the sea, and they are as close to each other as far as the end of the world. --------Wang Bo's "Sending Du Shaofu to Shuzhou" I advise you to drink a glass of wine. There is no old friend when you leave Yangguan in the west. ——Wang Wei's "Sending Yuan Er Envoy to Anxi" The shadow of the lone sail in the distance is gone in the blue sky, and only the Yangtze River can be seen flowing in the sky. ——Li Bai's "Sending Meng Haoran to Guangling" The water in Peach Blossom Pond is a thousand feet deep, and it is not as deep as Wang Lun's sending me love. ――――Li Bai's "Gift to Wang Lun" Don't worry if you have no friends in the future, no one in the world will know you. ——Gao Shi's "Farewell to Dong Da"
Thinking of you as if you were on the water, sending you a mighty expedition to the south.
Making friends is based on acquaintance, why should flesh and blood be intimate? ------Han Yuefu Folk Song <
A husband's ambitions are all over the world, and he is still close to his neighbors thousands of miles away------Three Kingdoms .Wei Cao Zhi <
We know each other no matter how far away we are, and we are still neighbors thousands of miles away ------ Zhang Jiuling of the Tang Dynasty <
Young man enjoys new knowledge, but in old age he misses his old friends ------ Han Yu of the Tang Dynasty <
Meeting friends with literature often leads to self-improvement through virtue. Neighbor------Tang Zuyong <
Life's friendships are at the end, don't be separated by ups and downs------Tang Helanjin Ming Dynasty <
There are no young or old in life, so when discussing friendship, why should we first agree with each other? ------ Du Fu of the Tang Dynasty <
Friends need to be calm when painting, but mountains are like essays and do not like to be flat ------ Qing Dynasty. Weng Zhao <
Fold flowers and send them to the people in Longtou. Jiangnan has nothing, just give me a spring branch. ----"Poetry to Fan Ye" by Lu Kai, a native of the Southern Song Dynasty
Mo Chou has no friends in the future, and no one in the world knows you. ---Farewell Dong Da
Same disciples are friends, and comrades are friends.
The husband is not without tears and does not shed them during parting. ---"Farewell" by Lu Guimeng of the Tang Dynasty
It is enough to have a close friend in life, and this person should treat him with sympathy.