Guqintai is a famous scenic spot in Wuhan, which was built to commemorate Yu Boya's meeting with his confidant Zhong Ziqi during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.
According to legend, Boya was a famous musician in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, with superb skills, but never met a bosom friend.
Once, during the Mid-Autumn Festival, Boya anchored in Hanyang and improvised against the bright moon. Suddenly, the strings were broken, so she met the woodcutter Zhong Ziqi.
Boya played a song meaning mountain, and sighed in the early stage: "Good guqin, majestic as Mount Tai!" " "Boya was overjoyed, and in the blink of an eye, he put his mind on tap water. In the second issue, he sighed: "What a good drum piano! Soup is like running water! " Boya then decided that the little chef hippo was his confidant, and the two became friends of life and death.
Unfortunately, when Boya came to Hanyang in the second year, she died of illness.
Boya was heartbroken. After crying and playing a song "Mountain Flowing Water" at the grave, he broke his string and piano and never played the piano again.
Guqintai is also known as Boyatai.
At the foot of Guishan Mountain, by the Moon Lake.
According to legend, more than 2,000 years ago, during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, Yu Boya, a master of Chu music, passed by the Hanyang River mouth and spent the night on the riverbank.
That night, after a storm, the moon was high and the scenery was fresh. Boya played the piano and expressed his feelings, sending mountains and rivers, which attracted the woodcutter Zhong Ziqi.
I was a musician when I was a child, and I was very good at knowing the melody. After listening to it, I boasted, "I am as tall as Mount Tai and the ocean is like a river."
Boya is very happy to meet her bosom friend.
They fell in love for half a year and met here.
The following year, I died unfortunately.
Boya was heartbroken. He came to the grave of the hippo chef and played the old song "Mountain Stream and Running Water". He lost his bosom friend, so he broke the lyre and sang a poem: If the little chef of hippo doesn't play, who will he play it to? All smiles are friends, but it's hard to find a bosom friend.
This is the legendary story of "Thank you for playing the piano".
This story is widely circulated in China. Since then, people have regarded "high mountains and flowing water" as a symbol of profound friendship and "bosom friends" as intimate friends.
Qintai was built in the Northern Song Dynasty and was destroyed many times in previous dynasties.
At present, the main building is a single eaves resting on the top of the mountain, in front of which is a mansion-style hall with a square stone platform of white marble, which is said to be the place where Boya plays the piano.
The whole building retains the style of ancient buildings, surrounded by water on three sides and overlooking Guishan Mountain.