The sound of the Guqin is not music — it is law.
Each vibration traces the boundary between

stillness and existence,

between one’s heart and the silence of the realm.
To play the Guqin is to engage in governance:

the governance of one’s own spirit.

In the lineage of Shichiken, the Guqin is remembered as the first instrument of sovereignty

— the echo that binds heaven, man, and reason into one accord.