But one day during a field trip to a minorities area in the mountains of Guangxi Province, after he had been at the Conservatory for three years, Tan realized that Western music theory had nothing valid to say about the lovely folk songs of the region.
然而當他在三年後隨著老師到廣西傜族田野調查時，卻發現西方樂理對這些絕美的山歌完全束手無策。