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Alla Rakha by

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Tabla Solo in Jhaptal by Alla Rakha, featuring Ravi Shankar (2003)

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Ten ancient famous songs of China by

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baike.baidu.com/item/中国古典十大名曲/105343

This is a good place to start your journey, though it misses a lot, and some songs are not as memorable as others, there is huge variability in that list.

The Ten Most Famous Melodies in Ancient China

. Source. A single video with a collage of all ten songs.

Hanging scroll by

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Fan painting by

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On Baidu Baike: baike.baidu.com/item/扇画/8486689

Erhu piece by

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Erhu player by

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Guqin player by

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Guqin bibliography by

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Bibliography:

guqinworld.com/

Guqin piece by

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Guzheng piece by

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Master Of Traditional Chinese Music: guqin by

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h www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B001HUE76K

Pipa piece by

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TODO identify better:

Posing As a Wind Instrument Player In an Ensemble by Li Xuan

. Source. Part of "Chinese Ancient Music - Vol 2, High Mountains And Flowing Water", e.g. as seen at: www.youtube.com/watch?v=If7ARKoMiKI.

Pipa player by

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Pu Songling by

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Sometimes you just know that your existence will be remembered for a singular reason. Better than not being remembered at all perhaps.

Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio story by

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Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio film adaptation by

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Suona piece by

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Reflections of the Moon on Erquan by

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Composed by Abing in 1949^[ref]

Reflections of the Moon on Erquan with erhu solo performed Song Fei

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Suwu herding sheep by

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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!

Suwu herding sheep played by Song Fei (2017)

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