Dongba is a double-reed gas-sounding instrument of the Jingpo people. "Dongba" is a transliteration of the Jingpo branch of the Jingpo ethnic group, which means a pipe flute with horns in Chinese. The Zaiwa branch language is called Biche or Bik. It is popular in Luxi, Yingjiang, Longchuan, Ruili and other places in Dehong Dai and Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture of Yunnan Province.

The shape of the dongba is similar to that of a suona, and it consists of a tube body, a reed whistle, a core and a bell mouth. Sizes vary, the common ones are about 52 cm in length.

The tube body is made of softer wood or copper, and the folks mostly use millet fruit wood or salt fruit wood produced locally. The outer diameter of the tail is about 4 cm. There are five or six circular sound holes on the body of the tube, all of which have a back hole, and most of them are six holes. The spring whistle is made of wheat straw or rice straw. It is flat on the top and round on the bottom. The core is made of wood, in the form of a hollow cone, with a spring whistle at the upper end, and the lower end is inserted into the upper end of the tube head, and a hollow chicken feather tube is also used as the core. The bell mouth is the resonator of the dongba, which is made of hollowed out horns or wood, and is generally 10 cm to 15 cm in length. The dongba at the mouth of the horn is also known as Erong Dongba by the Jingpo people.

The ancient Dongba among the Jingpo people has a total length of 62 cm to 74 cm. The tube body is made of wood, the top is thin and the bottom is thick, and it is a tubular cone. It consists of three sections, and there is no bell mouth at the bottom. Each section is connected by a copper socket, which can be disassembled and stored when not in use. Both ends of the tube head and tube tail are inlaid with copper hoops, and the copper sockets and copper hoops are engraved with patterns or exquisite carvings.