Making reed-pipe wind instrument "Lusheng" in SW China
( Xinhua )
Updated: 2014-02-19
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| Pan Guisheng (L), head of the "Lusheng promotion association" of Xin'guang Village, plays a three-meter-long Lusheng, a kind of reed-pipe wind instrument, in the village, Zhouxi Township, Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture of southwest China's Guizhou Province, Feb. 15, 2014. Dubbed as the "home of Lusheng", Xin'guang has the tradition of making the wind instrument for some 400 years with 65 family workshops still making it at present. In the year of 2006, China listed the craft as the national intangible cultural heritage. (Xinhua/Ou Dongqu) |
