In the painting, twelve female members of the harem are sitting around the table, drinking tea or drinking wine. The four in the middle are playing music to entertain them. The musical instruments they hold, from right to left, are Hu Jia ( Also known as 筚篥), pipa, guzheng and sheng. Among the two people standing there, there is another woman hitting the clapper to think of the rhythm.

There are musical instruments (yue four tones) and blowing music (yue four tones) here, which can be seen as palace music (yue four tones). , so the pronunciation here is the fourth tone of yue.