Boya Smashing His Guqin
In the Spring and Autumn period, a master guqin player named Yu Boya found his only true musical soulmate in a humble woodcutter named Zhong Ziqi. When Ziqi died, Boya was so overcome with grief that he smashed his instrument and cut its strings, vowing never to play again as the only person who understood his music was gone. This legend is the origin of the term 'Zhiyin,' meaning a soulmate...