This is the best-known piece in the 'martial repertory' (wuqu) for the
pipa. The earliest extant tablature is found in Hua Qiuping's pipa
score dated 1818, a vivid description of the performance of a
piece called Chu Han, about the Chinese Chu and Han states, and
specifically the epic battle between their rival armies which in 202 BC
secured the power of the Han Dynasty (206BC - 220AD). Chu Han
is found in the Ming dynasty (1368-1644) biography by the literatus
Wang Quanding (1598-1662)., Sizhao Tang Collection.
The two
pieces were based on the same story, and the sequence of sound and plot
descriptions in Wang's record closely match the subtitles of the
sections in the 1818 score. It is, therefore, possible to say that Shimian Maifu (Ambushed on Ten Sides) was in existence during the 17th century.
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nice
except they put the pic of a 阮 dunno for wat