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Ink-wash animation (as a music-tagged genre) refers to the soundtrack and scoring approach associated with Chinese ink-wash (shuimo) animated films. It aims to translate the aesthetics of traditional Chinese ink painting into sound: sparse, brush-like gestures; large amounts of “negative space” (silence); and timbres drawn from Chinese classical and folk instruments. Rather than Western cartoon scoring with constant mickey-mousing, ink-wash animation music typically supports atmosphere, poetic pacing, and visual breath, often leaning toward guqin- and dizi-centered chamber textures.