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(Bright Sheng was invited to a Uyghur family dinner. During the dinner, five old Mukam players/singers perform the Daolong Mukam almost without stop for six hours. See the Xinjiang part of Bright Sheng's Silk Road Journal)

(Dancing is a main feature during the Uyghur's hosted dinner. Usually, the hosts start, and then guests join in)

(inhabited chiefly by the Kilghiz people (another one of the thirteen ethnic groups in Xinjiang). The pictures show the Tan Chang tradition: the singing of Kilghiz folk songs and the playing of one of their representative plucked instruments, the Kumuz. The Kumuz is a two-stringed instrument with a rather small sounding and a narrow neck of about two feet.)