The next day, the leader of the national band of the Tibetan Song and Dance Troupe, and a second-level national actor.

In August 1963, Cidan was admitted to the Art Department of the Central University for Nationalities to study instrumental music. After graduating in August 1969, he joined the Tibetan Repertory Theatre and served as the band leader of the Tibetan Repertory Theatre. In 1973, he was transferred to work in the Tibet Song and Dance Troupe. In August 1982, he was admitted to the Department of National Instrumental Music of the Shanghai Conservatory of Music. For more than 30 years, he has played the flute solo for many times in various programs performed by the Tibetan Drama Troupe and the Tibetan Song and Dance Troupe, including the recorder solo, the Bau solo, the eagle flute solo, as well as the drummer of Tibetan opera, the lead player of temple instruments, etc. , his playing skills are skilled, the timbre is beautiful, and the style is unique.

In 1986, he devoted himself to the inheritance and research of Tibetan palace music, temple music and folk music. From this he found that there was no musical instrument in Tibet that could be played by professional actors. A sense of national responsibility made Cidan germinate to develop an eagle flute that can be played professionally.

In 1986, he found the first vulture wing bone to make an eagle flute. With the help of Ning Baosheng, a flute player of the Central Chinese Orchestra at the time, he made the first eagle flute at the end of 1997, which is still the eagle he still uses today. flute.

Jidan devoted himself to researching and continuously improving the playing skills of the eagle flute, and made various decompositions of the commonly used playing techniques such as slow blowing, rapid blowing, and super blowing. For example, the piece "My Dream" was a great success.