Who is the inheritor of the art of making reeds?

The heir to the art of making lutong is Wang Jiefeng.

Wang Jiefeng, a Miao, a native of Daguan, Yunnan Province, is the representative inheritor of the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage items of the Miao lusheng production techniques. Lusheng is the Daguan County Miao very favorite traditional musical instruments, Wang Jiefeng 19 years old began to follow his father to learn to do Lusheng, mastered the whole set of Lusheng production procedures and processes, become the fifth generation of Lusheng production techniques.

After many years of searching, Wang Jiefeng has improved the traditional skills on the basis of inheritance, made repeated experiments on the relationship between the length of the reed and the pitch of the sound pipe and the tone, and used the accordion and the electronic organ to calibrate the sound so that the sound of the reed sheng made by him and the traditional reed sheng are louder, clearer, and the tone is also more accurate. The reed-shengs he makes are as small as 30 centimeters and as big as more than 1 meter, and he can also make 8 tubes or 10 tubes of reed-shengs according to the requirements of the users, with excellent craftsmanship and beautiful modeling.

Introduction of Lusheng

Lusheng is a reed instrument of Miao, Yao, Dong and other ethnic groups in southwest China. Originating in the Central Plains, it was later introduced to minority areas, and its predecessor was the Han yu. In the villages of ethnic minorities living in Guizhou, known as the hometown of the reed-sheng, the hometown of song and dance, is one of the ethnic minorities particularly favorite musical instrument, every New Year's Eve, they have to hold a variety of colorful reed-sheng will be blowing up the reed-sheng dance, to celebrate their own national festivals. As a musical instrument, the lusheng has its own unique musical laws and dance forms.

The lusheng is divided into two kinds of light tone lusheng and heavy tone lusheng, whose tunes are 561235 and 612356, heavy tone lusheng's tunes are deep and loud, light tone lusheng is light and high-pitched, and the use of its music tunes is very strict, which is roughly divided into three major parts, such as "Rituals", "Lyrics" and "Narrative" etc., and the part of "Rituals" is mainly used for funeral rituals and the tunes*** have three hundred and sixty songs, which are mainly used in the "Rituals" part of the rituals. The "Lyric" part is mainly used for auspicious scenes such as stepping on the flower mountain, but the Wenshan Miao Lusheng wedding music has been lost due to continuous migration throughout history.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia - Lusheng