龟弦乐舞壁画

Qiuci Murals of Music and Dance

新疆博物馆供稿冯斐选拍

Material supplied by the Xinjiang Museum

Photographs by Feng Fei

Éditeur : Xinjiang People's Publishing House 1983

Xinjiang of China is home of songs and dances. It is said that during the time of the Yellow Emperor, Ling Lun from the Central Plains arrived at "Xiegu" in the northern foothills of the Kunlun Mountains. He picked bamboo stems of the same thickness and made China's first musical instrument. Then he spent days in the mountains, taking down the beautiful singing of phoenixes.

He made China's first piece of music. During the time of Yand Shun, the Xi Wang Mu tribe inhabited the Kunlun Mountains region. Their envoys brought as gifts pieces of jade, jade rings…..