The Pardon, 1991 https://stephenjones.blog/the-film/
On my YouTube channel, besides my new film on the 1995 New Year’s rituals in Gaoluo, two exciting additions:
- My film Li Manshan: portrait of a folk Daoist, complete—
so I’ve embedded the link in my page on the film. For now it’s still on Michele Banal’s Vimeo site too. You can also find the trailer on both channels! Links here to a wealth of posts in the Li family Daoists.

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- The amazing Hua family shawm band 滑家鼓乐班 playing the suite Da Yanluo 大雁落 for a funeral, Zhuanlou village, Yanggao county, north Shanxi, August 1992 (here).
From the DVD Doing Things with my book Ritual and music of China: shawm bands in Shanxi (2007).
The Hua band’s repertoire (“Ming dynasty bebop”) is heard on the ear-scouring CD Walking Shrill (Pan Records, 2004). Note also this detailed comparison of shawm bands with the qin zither, and this piece in particular! For more on shawm bands in China, see Walking Shrill, and for shawm bands around the world, here.
Do spread the word!