Liu Jing will never forget the day when she played music in the University of Cambridge in 2011. She was playing a piece of music which is based on (基于) the novel Dream of the Red Chamber (《红楼梦》). The music describes the sad love story between Jia Baoyu and Lin Daiyu in the novel. 【小题1】

Liu felt strange. After the performance, she asked the woman if she had read the novel. The woman said, “【小题2】 But the music touched me very much when you played it with your Chinese musical instruments (乐器).”

The experience was one of the reasons that made Liu show the world traditional Chinese music and instruments. Now Liu has made a series of (系列) music videos called “Chinese people’s musical instrument”. 【小题3】 People around the world like to watch them.

Among the videos, one is Prelude (序曲) to the Konghou (箜篌——中国古老弹拨乐器) of Li Ping, a short video based on a poem (诗) written by Li He in the Tang Dynasty.

【小题4】 And she plays her music with a Konghou. It is like a picture shown in a mural (壁画) in the Mogao Grottoes (石窟) in Dunhuang, Gansu Province. Liu also shows pictures of Konghou in the Dunhuang murals in the video.

Many Chinese teachers have chosen to show the video in their classes. 【小题5】

Maybe your childhood piano lessons made you never want to play the piano again. Perhaps a piano is too expensive for you. Now, thanks to a program in Sydney called "Play Me, I'm Yours", people can play the piano in public places for free. They share beautiful music, and the program also helps them communicate with each other.

The government has placed thirty pianos in different parts of the city, including in several parks, at a bus stop and on some streets. "Play Me, I'm Yours" is written on them. People are invited to play music or sing songs with the pianos. The program has interested lots of people to stop to watch or play the pianos.

"Play Me, I'm Yours" is a part of the Sydney Festival. It is a project of the British artist, Luck Jerram. He wants to help people in the city know each other better. He thinks that so many people are sitting in front of computers and busy with their work all hours, and they almost have no chance to enjoy music. So he hopes this can help them relax and make new friends.

The program "Play Me, I'm Yours" has also reached England and Brazil (巴西) before. It was warmly welcomed there. But its greatest success seems to come at the Sydney Festival. "It's a chance for people to be creative, know others better and just, have some fun, "Jerram said.