Mural guide
At the table a scholar sits beside the qin, one hand holding down an unrolled blank score and the other holding a brush above it, the qin lies across the table, and in the lower foreground a bamboo leaf rests on the table edge.
Qin Notation and Scores
How the qin was written down, from a Tang prose-tablature manuscript to the Ming Shenqi Mipu
Introduction
How qin music was notated and the scores that survive: the prose tablature of the Tang manuscript Jieshi Diao Youlan, and the Shenqi Mipu compiled by Zhu Quan in 1425 with the old pieces it holds.