Music · ST10514
Xiansuo String Ensembles
Suites for plucked and bowed strings such as zheng, pipa, sanxian and huqin, refined and delicate.
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Mural guide
After snowfall, plum blossoms open in a courtyard as musicians in fur-trimmed robes play in a sunlit hall. Two men pluck a pipa and a sanxian, a woman plays a zheng, and a young man bows a fiddle.
Northern ensembles of plucked and bowed strings, without gongs or winds