What are sizhu and how is the music related to them structured?

What will be an ideal response?


ANS: Sizhu are amateur silk-and-bamboo ensembles that play music in tea houses or
people's homes. The music is structured on a sequence of variations of a core tune, which is
elaborated heterophonically by the players.

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