Partridges Flying

Introduction

A Hunan folk tune whose earliest printed score appeared in a 1926 anthology

Zhegu Fei (Partridges Flying) began as a folk tune from Hunan and became a signature piece of Jiangnan dizi playing. Its earliest printed score appeared in an anthology compiled in 1926. Lu Chunling, known as the Flute King, arranged it as a dizi solo and called it his favourite flute piece. The national intangible heritage website lists it among his representative works. The flautist Zhao Songting made another arrangement inspired by a poem of Li Bai.

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