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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.
One of the women sang an old Tibetan love song, written by the famous 6th Dalai Lama; this was a particularly touching song that dug deep into our souls by the mere, very pure, sound of it. In general, it was amazing to see this Naxi orchestra perform complicated songs without a director and without the music in front of them - as it turned out, a kind of director was sitting in the back of the stage, using a set of small gong chimes to apparently guide the others. Even though the audience was not always behaving as controlled as you would expect in other countries, the evening was very well spent and the music continued in our heads as we walked out when the show was over.
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