The traditional bamboo and wood musical instruments of the Li nationality mainly include the bowl spoon, the burning bar, the nose flute, the mouth bow, the bow, the cuilie, the ding dong and the dumu drum. Musical instruments for self-entertainment are widely circulated in the Li area and are an important part of the Chinese musical instrument culture and art. In June 2008, the traditional bam...

At the age of 17, Huang Hailin joined the Song and Dance Troupe of Baoting Li and Miao Autonomous County and became a dancer. There, she met Huang Zhaoan, a national-level inheritor of bamboo and wood instrumental music of the Li nationality. It was precisely because of the influence of this instrumental master that Huang Hailin decided to give up dancing and transfer to the nose flute wi...