Music Talks

If you enjoy the world renowned piece “The Lonely Shepherd”, you are probably curious about the intriguing instrument used in the work. It is the pan flute and can be found in many places around the globe. Today, we will give you a glimpse of the Chinese pan flute and bring you remarkable songs in the genre.

Although He Yuan is a celebrated sheng performer, he is fascinated by an iconic ethnic instrument called the hulusi, which is gentle and delicate, like a whisper in your ear. He shares with us why he has special attachment to the instrument and presents his latest hulusi pieces.

“Deep at Night” is a musical tune used in two famed scenarios of Peking Opera, which include Beating the Drum to Condemn Cao and Ancient Beauty Yu Ji’s Sword Dance. We will share with you the intriguing storyline of these celebrated plays and unveil how the same melody sounds distinctively in different stories.

To accompany you during the National Day holiday, several celebrated musicians in the country join us to bring you some melodic songs. We will also review China's achievements so far this year in areas such as space exploration, sports, health care, and environmental protection.

Music for Love is a unique band, which mainly consists of four young adults living with autism. We will get up close with the zither performer of the band and find out how music has influenced her life, and share with you some of their remarkable songs, which express what they wish to convey to the world.

The Chinese Moon Festival symbolizes family reunion. To boost the celebratory atmosphere in advance, several famed musicians in the nation join us to bring you melodic songs related to this festival. We'll also tell you fascinating folk tales behind it.

Ancient Chinese philosophy has it that water has many virtues. It is an important element in all states of matter across the universe, nurturing every living thing that it comes across.

In this edition, Cen Jiawei, a guzheng player with the Yuan Sha Zither Orchestra in Beijing, will be bringing us several famous classical and contemporary guzheng pieces, which portray the sounds produced by water in various scenarios.

Let's find out how water is represented in Chinese music.

Many say the song "Slow, Slow Tune: A Salute to Civilization" melts their heart and soul.

It is the theme song of the Conference on Dialogue of Asian Civilizations, held in Beijing in 2019.

Seven teenagers from different parts of Asia came together to sing it and create the choreography for the music video.

The conference was held in a bid to spread the idea that the diversity of civilizations is an essential feature of the world, and that every civilization, with its unique roots and appeal, is a treasure for all humanity.

Han Yilin is a ten-year old from Shandong Province who represented China in the event.

The theme song was adapted from one of her previous performances that was released on various online video platforms.

In this edition, we discover the identity of this incredibly talented young girl and unveil the unique training regime used by her voice teacher, Shi Dongying.

In this edition, we will recommend certain types of food and lifestyles that can help with the transition to fall.

In addition, we will share with you some remarkable songs from Liu Ziwei's repertoire of health and wellness music.

They contain the rhythms and tempo of Western dance music and the emblematic features of Latin, Jazz and Afro-Cuban music.

Many of us have had some sort of summer depression, including loss of appetite, constant fatigue, increased irritability, sore throats, and swollen gums.

If you have developed some of these symptoms, Traditional Chinese Medicine believes you have excessive heat in your body.

TCM states that several factors may lead you to produce more heat, including hot temperatures, staying for too long in an air-conditioned room, sleeping late at night, having a spicy, salty, or meaty diet, or simply working too hard.

In this edition, we have invited Liu Ziwei on our show. She is a well-known two-stringed fiddle performer in the nation. Today, she will kindly share several of her songs with us that are believed to have the ability to cool down the surplus heat in the liver, heart, kidneys, and spleen. These works were composed by the famed composer Yan Minmin.