Storytelling · ST10707
Qinshu (Dulcimer Ballads)
Narrative songs to the yangqin, long and short tales sung in a plain, homely style.
2works
Mural guide
In a farmyard at sunset, beneath a persimmon tree and a newly lit lantern, four performers play a bowed fiddle, a hammered yangqin, bamboo clappers and a zither. Villagers of all ages listen from wooden benches.
Seated performers sing story ballads to their own yangqin and fiddles