Shakuhachi performing "Xu Ling"
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"Xu Ling" is the oldest existing shakuba song, composed in the Tang Dynasty more than 1,100 years ago. It is also the only ancient Chinese shakuba song with traces. It is called the shakuhachi classical trilogy. In ancient times, "Xu Ling" was also called "Xu Duo", and it was renamed "Xu Ling" in the process of circulation, and it is still respected by Shakuhachi masters and enthusiasts. This video is performed by the great Pipa master Fang Jinlong using the shakuhachi.

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Fang Jinlong (1963-), a native of Anqing, Anhui Province, a famous Chinese pipa player, a representative of modern five-string pipa, one of the "Four Heavenly Kings of Chinese Music", is now the "Jinlong Music Studio" of the Guangdong Provincial Art Institute Artistic Director.
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Shakuhachi (pinyin: Chǐ bā), an ancient Chinese traditional musical instrument, was introduced to Japan during the Tang and Song Dynasties. Made of bamboo, with cinnabar mixed with lacquer on the inside to fill the (ground) incision, it is now five holes (the first four and the last one). Vast, but also can show the ethereal, quiet artistic conception.

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