LoginFolk Music from Inner Mongolia - Region 0
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For the first time, a Western film crew is permitted to videotape the lonely shepherds in the snow-covered steppes of Inner Mongolia. Traveling musicians entertain nomadic herdsmen and their families in their yurts (felt tents). Story-telling with music has its own style in Mongolia: one story tells a 7th-century Monk's epic journey to India to bring back Buddhist scriptures. The video shows a carved rock face depicting Indian figures. Other examples are seen of stone sculpture in parks, and of landscaping and architecture. A calligrapher is seen at work on a scroll. South to Soochow and its orange groves, a traveling woman folk
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