On a moonlit night, two swordswomen are engaged in an acrobatic duel, scampering up walls and bounding from roof to roof amid the courtyards of old Beijing. The mood of the intense, close-fought encounter is perfectly captured in Tan Dun's percussive accompaniment to the scene: pounding oriental drums plus the boom of cello strings being slapped by hand.
月光下，玉嬌龍與俞秀蓮兩位女俠飛簷走壁的打鬥，譚盾以東西洋打擊樂器，甚至以手拍打大提琴琴弦的震動聲音，精準地表現出密不透水、內力深厚的對打。