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A great way to spend your evening in Lijiang is to visit the Naxi Orchestra, playing ancient Chinese and Naxi music on traditional instruments.
Our biggest surprise of the evening came when the Naxi orchestra entered the colourful stage. In brilliant coloured long-robed dresses, old, long-bearded musicians took to the stage in a dignified way. The musicians we saw in front of our eyes were exactly the kind of men we had seen on the pictures just before! Strangely enough, there were only young, but no old women. One of them announced the first song, explaining - fortunately also in English! - what the song was about. Explaining, too, that what we were about to hear was unique: ancient Chinese and Naxi music that had survived ages, and the Cultural Revolution. Some of the ancient instruments we saw had actually been buried to hide them from the authorities. And then, the music started. For the next hour and a half, we heard fantastic music and singing.
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