Xiao Hong Chen(The Mundane World) | Bamboo Flute Sheet Music

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Xiao Hong Chen(The Mundane World) is a classic wuxia (martial arts) song composed by Li Zongsheng, with lyrics by Li Manting and performed by Chen Shuhua. Released on February 3, 1993, it served as the Mandarin theme song for the film Swordsman III: The East Is Red ; later, it was also used as an insert song in the Singaporean TV drama The Great Conqueror's Concubine . It stands as one of the most iconic wuxia golden hits in the Chinese music scene of the 1990s.
The song blends elements of traditional Chinese music with modern pop music arrangement, creating a unique "wuxia pop style". It opens with the tone of a guqin (a traditional Chinese seven-stringed zither) to evoke the artistic conception of the "jianghu" (the martial arts world); after a transition led by a bamboo flute, the guzheng (a traditional Chinese plucked zither) intertwines with string instruments to build a magnificent and grand wuxia world. The melody of the chorus is passionate and stirring, conveying an unconstrained and heroic spirit that transcends the trivialities of the mortal world. The attitude of "facing life with a smile and letting go of grudges" conveyed by the song highly aligns with the psychological needs of contemporary people facing life pressures—this is why this old song from the 1990s still retains strong appeal today.
This music score is in the key of C and excerpts the first half of the original song (omitting the extended interlude and repeated ending section in the second half). It can be played on a C-tuned bamboo flute with the fundamental tone tuned to 5.

Xiao Hong Chen(The Mundane World) | Bamboo Flute Sheet Music

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