This gentleman on the Chinese video hosting app Bilibili plays the erhu--a two-stringed bowed instrument. It produces excellent fiddle music as aptly demonstrated with the American folk song "Dixie." The erhu's vibrant notes transport us to a land of cotton for old times there are not forgotten.
-via Orikron, who imagines the song as authentically Chinese had the Ming dynasty had not closed off private maritime trade in 1371.


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