The sight of a mysterious Chinese girl in hanfu playing the bamboo flute on the streets of Sydney attracted many international spectators. Dong also displays a sign introducing the dizi, and she is ...

Contemporary sequel to the Silk Road Chinese musical groups based overseas are elevating Chinese art and culture on the world stage, acting as cultural messengers and bridging East and West.

Each folk instrument takes center stage both figuratively and literally, regardless of which region the night's programme takes us. Upadhyaya likens it to the Silk Road, as we pass through China ...

All my life, the one instrument I have always wanted to play… is the flute. FEI: That’s wonderful, Bo! You know – I have a spare flute in one of my closets, and I’d be happy to give it to you.

The dizi is a bamboo flute and is widely used in Chinese folk music and opera. Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra Lin Yu-hsien with her dizi, a bamboo flute. Photo: Jonathan Wong ...

Describing the flute as a “social instrument,” she said she was happy to be one of the “founding members” of the organization’s adult group, which launched in 2012.

Guqin teacher Li Fengyun, xun (Chinese vessel flute made of pottery, one of the oldest known Chinese instruments), dizi (flute) and xiao (end-blown bamboo flute) teacher Wang Jianxin, and their ...

Kumeyaay musician uses her flute as instrument of ‘medicine for the people’ Share this: Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X; Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook; ...

The majority of these focus on a particular instrument: Bass Dizi (transverse flute), Erhu (bowed string), Guqin (zither), Pipa (lute/guitar), Xiao (vertical flute), and Yangqin (hammered dulcimer).

The performance was also meaningful to Lin because of her relationship to her instrument ... experience with the Western concert flute made picking up the dizi a bit easier.