The Concise History of Chinese Musical Temperament - Episode 2: If the system is broken…keep going!
Channel: Juni L. Yeung
Date: 2019-03-28

This episode covers the development of the sanfen sunyi cycle, and how this system of pure just fifths have been thought and rethought over the ages.

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Check out the original text passages cited with dictionary references at CText!
Huainanzi: Tianwen Xun
https://ctext.org/dictionary.pl?if=en&id=3070
Hou Han Shu: Lv Li Shang
https://ctext.org/hou-han-shu/lv-li-shang
Suishu: Lv li Shang
https://zh.wikisource.org/wiki/%E9%9A%8B%E6%9B%B8/%E5%8D%B716

Repeated thanks to Steven Jacks' video for the diagrams for microtonal octave cycles!
"1 - Why There are Twelve Notes in Music"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IT9CPoe5LnM

Music used:
Lead In and Lead Out: Gufeng Cao (Guqin), from Standards of the Guqin (CD)
http://torguqin.bandcamp.com
Secluded Orchid
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMX5U4yjUY8
Song Yu Bei Qiu
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VO316Gp3mwc
Zhao Yin (Fushimi Muka)
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Shenren Chang
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7BocERCAeY
Huaxu Yin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8WzhhS70YY