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Music might be a key to getting to know a nation. You may not have been to China, but perhaps you've heard the Chinese folk song "Jasmine Flower". Chinese people love to listen to and to sing foreign songs. Here comes a string of the most popular tunes from countries along the "Belt and Road". See i...
"Blooming Flowers and Full Moon" derives its name from this famous Chinese idiom. The metaphor of flowers in bloom at night under a full moon represents couples blessed with love, joy, and a long-lasting relationship....
The Spring Festival Overture was created by renowned composer Li Huanzhi in the 1950s, which adopts the melody and rhythm of "yangge" (a form of Chinese folk dance) in Northwest China's Shaanxi province, as well as elements from northern Shaanxi folk songs. With the Spring Festival as its theme, the...
"The Cuckoo" has a cheerful rhythm and a jumping melody, full of joy. When listening to this piece of music, people's emotions are unconsciously aroused, and they forget all the sadness, just like the cuckoo can't wait to welcome the arrival of early spring and explore the novelty of nature....
A Dialogue is a lively, short and concise banhu duet created by Zhang Changcheng and Yuan Ye. The music uses Banhu to imitate the question-and-answer form of Shandong folk "counterpart narrative singing". It requires superb performance skills, such as slide, pizzicato, chord competition and fast bow...
The Original Scenery of the Hometown is a famous ocarina tune composed by Sojiro. The hometown in memory is so natural, fresh, beautiful and peaceful. It is a kind of quiet and peaceful softness, but also an indescribable hazy ethereal beauty. But while showing the beauty of the natural earth, mount...
"Daoqing for Good Harvest" is originally a piece of erhu music composed by Mr. Lu Rirong in 1960. It is based on the flat-tune of Daqiban (grand overture) of traditional narrative singing "Shaanbei Daoqing" in northern Shaanxi, with the background of celebrating the harvest on the yellow land of nor...
The melody “Deep Night ” is often used as an accompaniment for the sword dance of Yu Ji in the Beijing opera “Farewell My Concubine”, as well as for the drumming of Ni Heng in the play “Hit the Drum and Curse Cao”. It takes the form of music to express the qualities of loyalty and toughness, which h...
“Blue and White Porcelain” is one of Jay Chou’s most famous songs. It used classical Chinese as lyrics and traditional instrumentation combined with modern sound technology to create a different kind of traditional feel to the song that became very popular in Asia. ...
It is orginally the theme song of the Peking Opera "Datang Royal Concubine", which tells a touching love story between Li Longji, the Emperor of Tang Dynasty and his concubine Yang Yuhuan....
