The Erhu Among The Big Sounds

Tiny and delicate, the Erhu holds its own among bigger and more flamboyant musical instruments.

Hear its presence:

A Combined Chinese Ensemble With The Erhu

 Erhu: Butterfly Lovers

The Sound Of The Erhu

The musical instruments of the Chinese, evolve with the desire to integrate thinking, feeling and belief into one: the person handling it, plays it like it is a part of his fingers/brain/heart/soul
...inseparable.

The erhu is a dramatic invention that is designed to achieve the flexibility and tone of the human voice.

Ballad of North Henan Province

Ballad of Lan Huahua 

played by Yu Hong Mei

The Sounds Of Chinese Instruments

Mongolia and China, a collection of many tribes; together, they form a sizeable diverse group of human beings.

From these is a pool of inventors.

Specifically is the wide range of invention of musical instruments and the music that have been composed for these instruments.

I am thrilled looking at these and listening to how these instruments are played!

The Guzheng by June Chen

Traditional

From The Silk Road

History of civilisation is a wonder-filled unfolding of stories told with different eyes, through chorus of voices speaking of many dreams and achievements.

Mongolia and China eventually developed the SILK ROAD that would open up spectacular spring-offs in trade, inventions, wars, destructions, reconstructions and opportunities.

Here is one amazing story!

The Story Of Silk

The Non-Chinese Man Who United China: Kublai Khan

From Genghis Khan came Kublai Khan, his grandson. A non-chinese world-builder, he unitied the whole of China that is still in existence today. Kublai Khan buillt as a man of vision.


Here is his story, as relevant as ever because of his inventive spirit and his genius in grasping the complex skills of matching men, technologies, diverse cultures, conflicting value-systems and immense distances.