Wang Fei Guqin Liu Shui (Chinese Music)流水-王菲古琴-NAGA Events Revie

This is a slide show of North American Guqin Aossoication's events review.
Background music Liu Shui Flowing Water played by Wang Fei, director of the North American Guqin Association.
This piece is more than 700 years old, and is perhaps the most famous Chinese classical composition. The story behind it concerns the scholar Yu Boya and his friend the woodcutter Zhong Ziqi. The guqin music played by Yu Boya was as grand as the high mountains and as lively as flowing water, but only Zhong Ziqi could perceive this in his music. As a result of this mutual appreciation they became very close friends. When Zhong Ziqi died, Yu Boya destroyed his guqin and vowed never to play again, because he felt nobody else could understand his music. This is the origin of the Chinese expression zhi yin -- "knowing the sound", which means a confidant or soulmate.
The version played by Wang Fei is the same as that included on the gold CD to represent Chinese music, sent into space by NASA in 1977.

NAGA was founded in 1997 by Wang Fei, an internationally known guqin player. Its mission is to promote aspects of Chinese culture through the traditional art of the guqin and to build a bridge for cultural exchange and mutual understanding between the Chinese and American communities. In the last ten years NAGA has grown in membership and has increased the number of programs it offers to the public. It invites guest presenters and performers to its events as a way of expanding its mission of bringing Chinese cultural heritage to local communities.
For more information about NAGA and Guqin, please visit http://www.guqin.org