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A section of the long handscroll painting entitled Night Revels of Han Xizai, created by Gu Honzhong (ca 943-975 AD) in the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period; this version is a remake of the subsequent Song Dynasty (960–1279). Detail of handscroll (pipa player against standing screen), ink & colors on silk, 28.7 x 335.5 cm.

In the center are three female musicians playing guan, two female musicians playing transverse bamboo flutes (likely hengdi, 横笛), and a male musician playing a wooden clapper called paiban (拍板).

Source: Can be accessed online at http://depts.washington.edu/chinaciv/painting/tliterat.htm Zhongguo lidai huihua: Gugong bowuyuan canghua ji, vol. 1 ( Beijing: Renmin meishu chubanshe, 1978), p. 87. Collection of the National Palace Museum, Beijing.

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