I don’t know a lot about music, I only listen to Japanese and Chinese classical music. And the music played in cathedrals. Music has healing abilities, but unfortunately I don't play any musical instruments. I am interested in zither and a nun can teach it, but I must read sheet music 🎼 and have a zither myself I am free both during the day and also at night When was the Plum in the Golden Vase published? The Plum in the Golden Vase was published in the early 17th century and may be the first long work of Chinese fiction written by a single author. We're all waiting here for him, and now he won't come in. Such popular works were multivocal and hybrid, Fragmented rather than unified, And so too is the novel, A “book of books” that lacks A consistent viewpoint. “Darkly vexed” is the oppressiveness one feels under the pressure of earning a livelihood in the world.