伯牙 Bo Ya Pendant 伯牙 Bo Ya Pendant

This jade piece venerates the eternality of friendship. The sentence goes: with the tune, bosom friends of eternality communicate to this day. This literary quotation is concerned with a classic story of friendship in the period of the Spring and Autumn and Warring States (BC770-221). It is said that the skilled Chinese zither master Bó Yá 伯牙 is playing zither in the unfrequented mountain, but the uneducated woodman Zhong Ziqi 鐘子期 can surprisingly understand what Bo Ya is delivering in his tune. Therefore, they two realize that they can really understand and appreciate each other. After Zhong Ziqi dies, Bo Ya feels that he loses his bosom friend, so destroys his zither, and never plays again. The tune Lofty Mountain and Flowing Water 高山流水 is still one of ten ancient Chinese classical tunes.

Hence, the man who is playing zither on the boat on the front side is Bo Ya, and the woodcutter sitting on the mountain is Zhong Ziqi.

This jade piece venerates the eternality of friendship. The sentence goes: with the tune, bosom friends of eternality communicate to this day. This literary quotation is concerned with a classic story of friendship in the period of the Spring and Autumn and Warring States (BC770-221). It is said that the skilled Chinese zither master Bó Yá 伯牙 is playing zither in the unfrequented mountain, but the uneducated woodman Zhong Ziqi 鐘子期 can surprisingly understand what Bo Ya is delivering in his tune. Therefore, they two realize that they can really understand and appreciate each other. After Zhong Ziqi dies, Bo Ya feels that he loses his bosom friend, so destroys his zither, and never plays again. The tune Lofty Mountain and Flowing Water 高山流水 is still one of ten ancient Chinese classical tunes.

Hence, the man who is playing zither on the boat on the front side is Bo Ya, and the woodcutter sitting on the mountain is Zhong Ziqi.