When playing Dai Ding, people usually sit in a sitting position, place the qin obliquely in front of the chest, hold the qin in the left hand and press the strings, tie a bone piece, a small bamboo piece or a sharpened chicken feather pipe with the index finger of the right hand, and pluck the strings under the sound hole to pronounce the sound. .

The Dai tuning is: g, a, d1 or c1, d1, g1, and the range is nine degrees. The tone is crisp and pleasant, just at a lower volume.

The right-hand skills include singles, rolls, glissandos, double-tones, etc. The left-hand often uses the index finger to play the open string, the little finger to pull the string, and the strum. The middle and outer strings are often used to play the melody, and the inner strings are only chords.

The Dai Ding is mostly used for solo performance, and it is often played in ensemble with the Qiming instrument, such as 筚. It is a musical instrument commonly used by young men of the Dai, Achang and De'ang nationalities when they "string girls".