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Fengxuan Xuanpin Profound Airs Spread Like the Wind 1 This handbook has 101 melodies, 34 with lyrics, 67 without.2 It was compiled by 朱厚爝 Zhu Houjiao, (Prince of the) Hui Region, central Honan province. Zhu's preface mentions his collecting his melodies from various schools.

風宣玄品 1539 Page 3 of Fengxuan Xuanpin: Burning incense and playing the qin Is this Zhu Houjiao? His students?

For further information about Fengxuan Xuanpin see:

• The Qinqu Jicheng preface by Zha Fuxi, giving background to the history and contents of Fengxuan Xuanpin.
• My additional commentary
• The Table of Contents, listing all the melodies, and adding links to those for which I have written commentary and/or translations of lyrics.
• So far I have learned nine melodies from Fengxuan Xuanpin:³
  Yi Sa Jin (A Bit of Scattered Money)
  Wenjun Cao (Song of Wenjun);
   - also called Feng Qiu Huang (A Male Phoenix Seeks his Mate)
  Zui Weng Yin (Old Toper's Chant)
  Feng Lei Yin (Wind and Thunder)
  Gujiao Xing (Going with Old Style Relations)
  Kai Gu (3; Cherish Antiquity)
  Yan Guo Hengyang (Wild Geese Traverse Hengyang)
  Weibin Yin (Wei Riverbank Intonation)
  Pei Lan (Fragrant Orchids)

 
Footnotes (Shorthand references are explained on a separate page)

1 44734.148 Fengxuan Spread like the wind (Return)

2 Some are clearly songs, others seem to be instrumental pieces to which lyrics have been added. (Return)

3 Comprising 9 of the 18 melodies whose earliest version survives from here: 6 of the 7 without lyrics and 3 of the 11 with lyrics. (Return)

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