But "the greatest music has the sparsest sound," and the clear qin melody of which Liu Changqing lamented, "Though I love this ancient tune / Few play it today," is said to have been none other than the traditional piece "The Wind Blows Into the Pines." This shows that Chinese music does indeed aspire after the heavenly sound of nature.
大音稀聲，感嘆古調雖自愛，今人多不彈的劉長卿，泠泠七弦發出的正是傳統曲「風入松」。今天仍不時被演奏的「風入松」，也說明中國音樂嚮往的是大自然的天籟。