Silk Road Tour 3 - Yinchuan - Abigail Washburn & The Village

On this second stop of the Silk Road Tour, we arrive in the Yellow River town of Yinchuan in Ningxia, home province of the Hui Muslims. Local er hu 二胡 virtuoso Quan Lei joins us in a rendition of "Little Birdie" and plays "Sai Ma" 赛马, the crowd-pleasing "Horse Race" song.

The Hui people are a Mandarin speaking group of Muslims, descended from Persian, Arab and Turkish Silk Road traders who married local women many generations ago. We were taken to a massive, recently-built museum of Hui history which looked kind of like the Taj Mahal and seemed to have no visitors apart from our group. Ah the joys of the institutional itinerary. But we managed to have a good time in this weird monument and made our flight to Xi'an with only a couple minutes to spare.

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Full Silk Road Tour Playlist:
‪http://www.youtube.com/user/AbigailWashburn#grid/user/8A4BE13075AAFBDF

Tour Map:
‪http://g.co/maps/dnh73‬

Shot & Edited by Luke Mines‬

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• hui
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• 中国
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• banjo
• quan lei

[washingtonbluegrass]

Very cool! Love the videos Abigail. (Mike McGill)



[mzim144659]

that 2-stringed cello-like instrument makes nice music.

[strayleave]

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