As you look at all the different instruments changing at her hands you begin to wonder which one should be Ruan, the bamboo grove instrument…?
My dear friend, you have chosen the wrong answer.
The one you picked is called Pipa. It is a kind of plucked string instrument
introduced from the Silk Road from little Asia with a similar playing method
as Ruan. However its appearance is quite different from that of Ruan, with
a pear-shaped sound board and crooked neck. By contrast, Ruan’s sound board
is round and its neck is straight.
You may choose again.
My dear friend, you have chosen the wrong answer.
The one you picked is called Dulcimer (Yangqin). This instrument is in trapezoid
shape. People play the instrument with two wooden sticks hitting the strings.
Ruan is a plucked string instrument with circular sound-board and straight
neck.
You may choose again.
My dear friend, you have chosen the wrong answer.
The one you picked is called Guqin. It has a round surface and flat bottom,
which symbolizes the rounded sky and flattened earth.
Ruan is a plucked string instrument with a rounded sound-board and straight
neck.
You may choose again!
Traditional Chinese
Musical Game
——A Journey to the Bamboo Grove
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It is a broiling hot noon. Looking at the burning sun outside the window, you feel a bit dizzy. Thinking of a pile of undone files, how much you want to take a nap right away! Gradually, you comfortably lie on the chair, with the eyelids falling. All in a sudden, a melodious music awakens you when you see a fairy drifting by with a rounded instrument in her arms. Musical notes flow from her fingers, which coolly permeate in your heart and give you refreshment.
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The young
lady says: “I am the fairy of the bamboo grove. Now let me show you to the
place I live—Bamboo Grove Palace, to have some fun. However, you have to
answer one question from me before that. The Chinese instrument I just played
belongs to the tranquil bamboo grove with the name Ruan. Now please look
at the changing instruments with me, can you tell from below which one is
exactly Ruan?”
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