The ancient sandalwood was introduced into the Central Plains from the northwestern minority areas, and has been used in music and dance, rituals and Buddhist music in the Sui Dynasty. In the early Tang Dynasty frescoes in the Thousand Buddha Caves in Dunhuang, there are already painted figures of musicians striking sandalwood boards. In the frescoes of the Bohai Tomb Group (AD 698-926) in Jilin Province, there is also an image of a female musician holding a sandalwood board.
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Han Qixiang (1915-1989), a storyteller and actor in northern Shaanxi, China. Male, Han nationality, from Hengshan, Shaanxi. Blind at the age of 3, he studied art at the age of 13. At the age of 30, he can rap and sing dozens of books, and can play more than 50 kinds of folk songs.
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I'm used to reading fashion magazines and trendy brands, but today I'll show you something different. This is the twenty-one band from the Qing Dynasty that swept the world. You must not have thought that this Qing Dynasty band had debuted in the C position and led the fashion. Just the folk music playing and painting have been sold at home and abroad.
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The Zhejiang Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism announced the list of the sixth batch of representative inheritors of provincial-level intangible cultural heritage. A total of 279 people from all over Zhejiang Province were on the list, including those from the Tiaoqiong Protection, Inheritance and Development Center of Xinchang County, Shaoxing City. Xing Zuobin.
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When playing, the left and right hands hold the two outer boards separately, or the left hand holds the three boards, and the right hand holds the two boards. No fixed pitch, the sound is crisp, short and penetrating. It is used for the Fujian Nanyin instrumental ensemble and the accompaniment of Liyuan Opera.
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It is made of mahogany, red sandalwood, pear or litmus. Due to the different purposes of use in the past dynasties, the number of boards is also inconsistent. It usually consists of five or six boards, with a maximum of nine boards and a minimum of three or four boards.
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