Music · ST10516
Shifan Ensembles
Shifan ensembles alternating strings and winds with gongs and drums, played at festivals and processions.
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Mural guide
On a moonlit lake, musicians play aboard a painted pleasure boat hung with glowing lanterns: two blow transverse flutes, one beats a drum, one plucks a ruan and another strikes a small gong. Lights and a pagoda line the far shore.
Folk ensembles of some ten silk, bamboo, drum and gong instruments, played from Jiangnan to Fujian, Guangdong and Hainan