The impromptu song "Mang Tong Xiang" comes from the album "Chinese Music Map: Listening to Guizhou Miao Folk Songs Collection"

The Sound of Mang Tong

Improvisation ethnic group: Miao region: Guizhou

Mang tube: Yang Shengwen

Almost every Miao village has a hall (team) of lusheng, which serves as a symbol of auspiciousness and happiness in the village. In some areas of Guizhou, lusheng teams are composed of six different specifications of lusheng, including mang tube, extra large, large, medium, small, and extra small. Among them, the Mang tube is different from other reed tubes. It does not have six sheng tubes. Its shape is a three or four foot long cylinder, and a small bamboo tube is inserted into the tube to play a low and simple wonderful sound. The rich parts roll like mountains and seas, and the weak parts are round and smooth like the natural sounds in nature, with swaying and trembling as if the wind is passing by. It is like trees and leaves talking with cicadas and springs, like a tacit signal transmitted from the heart to the heart in the mountains and fields, Simple notes create a simple yet captivating melody, as presented in this piece of music.