If you grew up learning music in China, you probably read jianpu (简谱) — numbered musical notation, where 1–7 stand in for do-re-mi instead of dots on a staff. It’s compact, easy to scribble, and surprisingly fun to parse with code. So I built a little player that reads jianpu text, lays it out, and plays it back right in the browser.
Update June 27, 2026: The full project is now live. Visit the Chinese Folk Music project site to see the regional melody-texture comparison — melodic contours, interval-distribution histograms, summary statistics, and interactive analyzers.