Seven Should-not-plays (Chinese Music)

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Gu-qin
Gu-qin

In Chinese traditional culture, regarding playing Gu-qin, in seven types of circumstances one should not play:

  1. when there is big wind or big rain;
  2. when having big sorrowful mood;
  3. when one's dress is not tidy;
  4. when one is drunken and being crazy;
  5. when one has not burned incense;
  6. if one does not understand music or is at an vulgar circumstances;
  7. if one has not had a bath or is at a dirty place;


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  • The Seven Should-not-plays in playing Gu-qin is recorded in "Jing Shi Tong Yan", which is a Chinese ancient collection of novels written by Feng Meng-long (Feng Menglong) of Ming Dynasty.
  • The Seven Should-not-plays in playing Gu-qin is also addressed in a Chinese classical literature masterpiece "Feng Shen Bang" (Gods of Honor).

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