Are these the original lyrics? ====== 1. 好一朵茉莉花， 好一朵茉莉花， 满园花草也香不过它， 奴有心采一朵戴， 又怕来年不发芽。 2. 好一朵金银花， 好一朵金银花， 金银花开好比钩儿芽， 奴有心采一朵戴， 看花的人儿要将奴骂。 3. 好一朵玫瑰花， 好一朵玫瑰花， 玫瑰花开碗呀碗口大， 奴有心采一朵戴， 又怕刺儿把手扎。

@@dbadagna These are the lyrics sung in the video. As the video says, there are many versions of Flower Tune/Jasmine Flower, as it is a widely circulated folk song in Jiangsu. I have another version of the lyrics here. 好一朵茉莉花 好一朵茉莉花, 满园花开香也香不过它。 我有心采一朵戴, 又怕看花的人儿骂。 好一朵茉莉花, 好一朵茉莉花, 茉莉花开雪也白不过它。 我有心采一朵戴, 又怕旁人笑话。 好一朵茉莉花, 好一朵茉莉花 满园花开比也比不过它 我有心采一朵戴, 又怕来年不发芽。 Similarly, the songs vividly depict a refined and virtuous young girl who is attracted by the fragrant and beautiful jasmine flowers, with a longing and attachment that she cannot bear to pick and cannot let go of.

Is that song available to listen to on KZbin?

@@dbadagna Maybe you can only find it from the video tapes released that year.

@@dbadagna 應該是張燕來台灣演奏的古箏曲子“Southeast fly the peacocks”

this reminds me of a boy I once knew named lagu who was a ninjago master of noses

@@anishkadipikonda1348 Also reminds me a looser kid named anish who had a big booty and it stayed that way cuz he looks like a girl and he makes friends with weird ass kids

@@anishkadipikonda1348 reminds me of a weird looking kid who has no friends and has a large butt named austimnish

@@anishkadipikonda1348 yo

I agree. There's so much pseudo-Chinese music produced in recent years which is of such poor quality, and, in contrast, a production of such high quality and authenticity deserves to be better known.

This tuning could be called equipentatonic.

@@dbadagna That's a really pretentious name for an equal pentatonic scale.

@@RalphScott-wu8ei Similarly, a tuning of seven equal divisions of the octave could be called equiheptatonic.

Are you asking if Li Guangzu ever used this instrument for recordings? If so, I don't know the answer, but other viewers might.

@@dbadagna 聽李廷松錄塞上曲嘅琵琶唔係咁嘅音色?

@@kaulchan2263 I'm afraid I can't understand exactly what you are asking. This video is a live performance, so the audio heard in this video is certainly that of the antique pipa Li is playing.

谢谢你的推荐；是淮北琴书从淮北市安徽省北方吗?

This habit is primarily a matter of convenience, as the very thin silk outside string (zi xian, 子弦) is frequently prone to breaking, sometimes during a performance.

Thank you, if you know it, can you please also tell me his village/town/city/province of residence, and in approximately which year he was born?

Sorry, I only start with learning chinese, but I thank you a lot for your channel !

This video does have subtitles--in Chinese. I need English subtitles myself.

That's a huge subject. I assume you already know about nuo (傩) masked ritual opera and folk Daoist rituals, but I recommend a local opera form called Tongju (通剧), if you haven't checked it out: kzbin.info/www/bejne/n2G5YYafraitY68 kzbin.info/www/bejne/e4W3hopvgcaHpNE

Until the 1960s, when the modern nylon-flatwound steel strings (modeled on Western concert harp strings) were adopted, the pipa and most other Chinese string instruments almost always used musical instrument string made from twisted silk, called si xian (丝弦) in Chinese, which came in various gauges. These were sometimes overwound (with more silk) for the thickest strings. The highest-quality silk strings were called zhu xian (朱弦, literally "vermilion/cinnabar strings"), and were red in color. You can see such strings depicted in Chinese paintings dating back to the Tang Dynasty. I think there were also green-colored strings. Supposedly in the Tang Dynasty there was also a special kind of string called pengji xian (鹍鸡弦), which was said to have been made from the sinew of a crane-like bird, but it's difficult to tell which species this may have been. There are also records of pi xian (皮弦, leather strings) and gou chang xian (狗肠弦, "dog gut strings"), but I don't have any further information about those. It's possible that brass or copper strings were experimented with in prior centuries, but I've never come across any evidence for this, and the timbre produced would have been very different from the typical "dry-silk" timbre of silk strings, and thus unsuitable for this instrument. Prior to the adoption of the nylon-wrapped steel strings, in the mid-20th century, I think a few pipa players experimented with nylon strings, and nylon strings may still be used by pipa players in a few regional traditions including Suzhou pingtan, where the "dry-silk" timbre is still highly valued (but greater durability is desired, since silk strings, like gut strings, are prone to frequent breakage).

@@dbadagna Thank you VERY much for your detailed information. Kind regards, Bernhard from Vienna.

Thank you for this correction

Thank you for this correction

@@dbadagnaeasy!

This traditional way of holding the instrument seems to help in at least two ways. I explained it in the video description above.