Sentence examples for the sheng from inspiring English sources

"I love this stuff, playing the sheng," Mr. Zhang said.

In China the instrument is called the sheng and it's made of bamboo.

The expert players were Hu Jianbing on the sheng and Bao Jian on the guanzi.

Several instruments were derived from the sheng, including the Japanese shō and the Korean saenghwang.

She was challenged in the Golijov by Wu Tong's lively squawking on the sheng (Chinese mouth organ complete with pipes).

Other languages used included Hindi, Kikuyu, Somali, Luo and the Sheng dialect, many of which were combined with English.

The mouth organs of Borneo, Laos, and Cambodia are probable ancestors of the Chinese sheng and the Japanese shō (mouth organs).

The current paper discusses the conservation and restoration of the Guang Sheng Si Pagoda of the Liao Dynasty in Liaoning Province, China.

Below the level of the province (sheng 省) were prefectures (fu 府) operating under a prefect (zhifu 知府), followed by subprefectures (zhou 州) under a subprefect.

In May, the Pai Sheng had slipped beneath the Golden Gate Bridge at night, depositing two hundred and fifty passengers on a San Francisco pier.

I first had this extraordinary dish 15 years ago at the Tong Sheng Xiang Restaurant, across from the Bell Tower.