Primate Updated 2025-07-16
A Chinese Ghost Story sutra 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.
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A Hundred Birds Pay Homage to the Phoenix with suona solo performed by Li Guangcai
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Painted Skin (1992 film) Updated 2025-07-16
Outstanding scenery/filming locations and clothing! What are those places! Wikipedia says it was shot party in Shanxi.
Appears to have widely modified the story unfortunately however.
They really love their pyrotechnics!
A Chinese Ghost Story Updated 2025-07-16
OK, the Good film tag might imply that you are a Sinophile.
The adaptation is very loose.
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Poster of A Chinese Ghost Story
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Wu Man Updated 2025-07-16
Dragon boat (pipa piece) Updated 2025-07-16
This piece is a reference to Dragon boats from the Dragon Boat Festival.
The explosive moments presumably represent the intense rowing action of a dragon boat race competition.
TODO date composed.
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Dragon boat performed by Yuanchun Yu (2021)
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Dance of the Yi People Updated 2025-07-16
Composed by Wang Huiran in 1960.
The Yi people are one of the 55 Chinese ethnic minorities officially recognized by the Chinese government.
Video 1. . Source. From the album Chinese Plucked Instruments: Vol. 2 - Fishermen’s Song At South Sea: www.amazon.co.uk/Chinese-Plucked-Instruments-Fishermens-South/dp/B001HUECZQ (2004)
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Dance of the Yi People performed by Wu Man (2021)
Source. Presented by the Aga Khan Music Program.
Ambush from ten sides Updated 2025-07-16
Video 1.
Ambush from ten sides performed by Jiaju Shen (2017)
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Video 2. . Source. The sound quality is not great, but you do get to see the master. TODO location and date.
Jackdaw Playing With Water Updated 2025-07-16
Considered one of the 10 famous Chaozhou music pieces TODO list.
Was also adapted by Liu Baoshan (1937-1997) as a pipa song. Ciro Santilli prefers the pipa version.
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Jackdaw Playing With Water performed by Xu Lingzi on the guzheng at the Wiener Musikverein
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Jackdaw Playing With Water performed by Lin Shicheng on the pipa
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Bo Ya Updated 2026-08-21
en.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.
Li sao (guqin song) Updated 2025-07-16
www.facebook.com/131402556881886/posts/655763214445815/ gives an origin:
Li Sao was composed by Cheng Kangshi in late Tang dynasty based on the poem Li Sao, authored by Qu Yuan (340-278 BC) in the Warring States period of ancient China.
The silkqin.com entry: www.silkqin.com/04qart/07sqmp/57ls.htm does not mention this however.
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Lisao performed by NiniGuqin (2020)
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Lit: fish timber question answer.
The dialog is also known as allegory for an incredibly deep philosophical discussion between an idealized wise woodcutter and a fisherman, e.g. mentioned at: www2.kenyon.edu/Depts/Religion/Fac/Adler/Writings/Fisherman%20and%20Woodcutter.pdf
This song is just too slow for Ciro Santilli to make much out of it.
Figure 1.
Dialog between Fisherman and Woodcutter Chinese traditional painting by Xie Shichen
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Video 2.
Dialog between Fisherman and Woodcutter performed by Wu Jinglüe
. Source. Accompagnied by di flute to reinforce the idea of two voices. This one has TODO year.
The book binding broke three times Updated 2025-07-16
韦编三绝 is a chengyu that means "to study diligently", i.e. to read so much to the point that your book starts to wear down.
There is a Chinese Wiki page for this song: zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/韦编三绝 which says it dates from the early Qing dynasty
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"The book binding broke three times" uploaded by guqincn
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High Mountain and Flowing Water Updated 2025-07-16
Composed by Bo Ya for the guqin.
But there is an awesome guzheng adaptation which is perhaps better known in modern times, partly because it is not as long/slow. TODO origin.
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High Mountain and Flowing Water performed on the guzheng by Xiang SiHua (2000)
Source. Performer Chinese name: 項斯華
silkqin.com Updated 2025-07-16
John Thompson's Guqin website.
Holy crap amazing list of Guqin pieces by the guy for MP3 download! www.silkqin.com/06hear.htm And the explanations are insane. What a dude. Ciro Santilli's hero.
Download all MP3:
wget -r -np -l 1 -A mp3 http://www.silkqin.com/06hear.htm
Ciro Santilli Contacted John by email in 2019 telling him to put his stuff on YouTube and offering help, and he replied, but nothing came of it unfortunately. Edit: he uploaded a bunch of videos of him playing live in 2020! www.youtube.com/user/silkqin/videos
John focuses on playing the tunes in a "historically informed performance", in particular using silk strings rather than metal ones which are used by most modern artists: www.silkqin.com/08anal/hip.htm
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Dialog between Fisherman and Woodcutter performed by John Thompson (2020)
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