The Luqi Xinsheng contents are listed here together with the opening lyrics of each melody.

• Table of contents
  Nanshan image and hand diagram (VII/1)

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• 指法要論 Important things to say about fingering (VII/2)
• 琴學須知 What must be known about studying qin (VII/2)
• 彈琴啓蒙 Preliminary instructions for playing qin (9 rules; VII/3)
• 十三徽律論 Essay on the structure of the 13 harmonic nodes (VII/4)
• 右手指法 Right hand fingering techniques (VII/4)
• 左手指法 Left hand fingering techniques (VII/6)

Luqi Xinsheng tablature:
1. 宮意 Gong Yi (VII/9)
   "惠風膏雨沐花天，紫陌青門人閑繾綣，芳草任留。公子王孫，戲舞鞦韆...."

2. 商意 Shang Yi (VII/10)
   "秋風秋風秋風清，鴻雁來，梧桐一葉下臯庭，嘆人生能有幾許光陰...."

3. 角意 Jiao Yi (VII/10)
   "東風吹拂輕揚，化日初長。雨餘芳草斜陽。桃花零落燕泥香...."

4. 徵意 Zhi Yi (VII/11)
   "綠綺高柳咽新蟬，南熏調入冰絃。午窗香篆嫋沉烟，鶴撆舞...."

5. 羽意 Yu Yi (VII/11)
   "忘機泛泛水中鷗，海翁把釣常為偶。樂相終始，歲月悠悠，沙...."

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6. 思賢操 Si Xian Cao, 7 sections (VII/12)
   "大哉顏回，得道大哉顏回，思憶顏回...."
   Guide 15/155/310 思賢操 Si Xian Cao lists 23 titles, but also related are 13/140/243 (Ya Sheng Cao), 19/181/370 (Yi Yan Hui) and 29/226/431 (Fusheng Cao). Earliest is the Ya Sheng Cao of 1511.

7. 客窗夜話 Ke Chuang Yehua, 11 sections (VII/14)
   "羈情旅思，想那故國他鄉。久相別，歎那常參商。忽相見，喜也非常。共此燈光...."
   Guide 14/153/286; melody and lyrics related to 1511 and elsewhere

8. 梅花三弄 Meihua Sannong, 13 sections (VII/18)
   "溪之灣，山之坳，滄浪月晚，影落梅梢香縹緲。道人櫛樬樅兮...."
   Guide 4/37/50; melody and lyrics are its own adaptation of those found elsewhere (from 1425 and 1511)

9. 猿鶴雙清 Yuan He Shuang Qing, 12 sections (VII/25)
   "猿鶴本非同氣，今為表裏，誰知天生兩種，結為兄弟。最喜二個烟霞...."
   Guide 14/151/268; melody and lyrics related to 1511 (Shuang Qing Zhuan) and elsewhere

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10. 胡笳十八拍 Hujia Shibapai, 18 sections (VII/31)
    "我生之初尚無為，我生之後漢祚衰。...."
    Guide 8/77/119 includes it with Da Hujia, but the melody and lyrics here are unrelated to those of earlier Hu Jia melodies; melody is new, lyrics are those traditionally attributed to Cai Wenji herself. These lyrics are set to different music in 1618

11. 欸乃歌 Ao Ai Ge, 20 sections (VII/38)
    "家註吳楚大江頭，青山綠樹水悠悠閑。浪花中，駕一葉扁舟，南北任遨遊。欸乃...."
    Guide 21/190/376; lyrics and melody are related to those of at least five melodies called Yu Ge (11/117/200), including the earliest (<1491).

12. 陌上桑 Moshang Sang, 7 sections (Mulberry Lane; VII/45)
    "日出東南隅，照我秦氏樓，秦氏有好女，自名為羅敷。...."
    Anonymous YFSJ lyrics (p. 410); Guide 28/222/428: only here, 1611 (identical) and 1618 (unrelated music and lyrics)

13. 四思歌 Si Si Ge, 4 sections (Song of Four Laments; VII/47)
    "一思曰﹕我所思兮在泰山，欲往從之梁父艱。...."
    Guide 28/--/430: only here and 1611; the lyrics are the poem Si Chou Shi by Zhang Heng.

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