Scope and Contents The Mournful Melody 琵琶血染汉宫花 Pi Pa Xue Ran Han Gong Hua. All music manuscripts were stamped by 曲艺苑 Arts and Performance Center. The story tells the Ming Emperor of Han Dynasty and his empress love each other for eighteen years. However, seeing the emperor becomes arrogant because of his achievements and does not care about the life of his subordinates, the empress wants to play a tune of pipa to persuade him. The empress asks a pipa musician Zhao Weiyi to teach her all night. However, the...