The Great Sage, Heaven's Equal (Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio story) by 
Ciro Santilli 40 Updated 2025-07-16
Ciro Santilli 40 Updated 2025-07-16
Appears to be a small section from the Diamond Sutra. TODO find or create a video of it, it is just too awesome.
The best instrumental songs: Section "The best Chinese traditional instrumental music"
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Bibliography:
- Ciro Santilli's YouTube playlist: www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcZOZrP1P_V5J2P3ogZNpya0BAuPEgyuE
- Reddit:
- www.reddit.com/r/classicalmusic/comments/op54d5/traditional_chinese_music_recommendations_helpful/ "Traditional Chinese Music Recommendations & Helpful Sources" by
_AsyA_(2021). This user knows a bit as shown in description. - www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/1ejy8jw/how_to_get_into_traditionalclassical_chinese_music/ "How to get into traditional/classical chinese music?" by Ultimate_CockSucker (2024)
- www.reddit.com/r/Chinese/comments/150sf4y/what_are_some_really_good_traditional_chinese/ "What are some really good Traditional Chinese music artists?" by Flimsy-Assumption513 (2023)
- www.reddit.com/r/classicalmusic/comments/op54d5/traditional_chinese_music_recommendations_helpful/ "Traditional Chinese Music Recommendations & Helpful Sources" by
Wang Jin beats Gao Qiu theme music from The Water Margin featuring a suona solo
. Source. The main four instruments are undoubtedly:but there is also amazing content on others which must not be missed, including:
Infinite Wikipedia instrument list: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Chinese_musical_instruments
25 musical instruments OF China by Learning Music Hub
. Source. Great video, covers all the most important ones briefly with examples of varying relevance.
www.ibiblio.org/chinese-music/html/traditional.html contains an amazing orchestral version for di flute TODO identify! When attempting to upload to YouTube, it identifies as "Su Wu Tending the Sheep" and give a name "Chen Tao", but no further information. Chen Tao is presumably this dude: www.barduschinamusic.org/chen-tao-dizi | www.melodyofdragon.org/chentao.html 陈涛
baike.baidu.com/item/苏武牧羊/5532#11_2 mentions that it comes from an erhu concerto composed by Peng Xiuwen
The sadness of the erhu perfectly fits the role and mood of the story! Brilliant!
Once Ciro Santilli played Suwu herding sheep while his mother in law was around, and she quickly pointed out:He's very popular!
Suwu by Abing!
Stringless guqin fan painting by Feng Chaoran (1943)
Stolen traight from www.silkqin.com/10ideo.htm on silkqin.com:Wind in the pines and a babbling brook are nature's melody. A qin was brought along, but there is no need to play it
A convenient notation for the elements of of prime order is to use integers, e.g. for we could write:which makes it clear what is the additive inverse of each element, although sometimes a notation starting from 0 is also used:
For non-prime order, we see that modular arithmetic does not work because the divisors have no inverse. E.g. at order 6, 2 and 3 have no inverse, e.g. for 2:we see that things wrap around perfecly, and 1 is never reached.
Finite fields made easy by Randell Heyman (2015)
Source. Good introduction with examplesen.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bo_Ya&oldid=1150295883#The_story_about_Zhiyin:
Bo Ya was good at playing the qin. Zhong Ziqi was good at listening to the qin. When Bo Ya's will was towards high mountains in his playing, Zhong Ziqi would say, "How towering like Mount Tai!" When Bo Ya's will was towards flowing water in his playing, Zhong Ziqi would say, "How vast are the rivers and oceans!" Whatever Bo Ya thought of Ziqi would never fail to understand. Bo Ya said, "Amazing! Your heart and mine are the same!" After Zhong Ziqi died, Bo Ya broke his Guqin because he thought that no one else can understand his music.
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