The significance of the inheritance of Yuping xiao flute

The 1980s to the early 1990s, is the heyday of the development of the Yuping xiao flute, the product has been awarded the title of provincial and ministerial excellence, the highest annual output of more than 500,000, the output value of more than 800,000 yuan. With the accelerated process of modernization, national musical instruments have been greatly impacted, xiao flute production technology protection and development of the situation is grim. Yuping xiao flute production skills should be rescued, protection, so as to avoid the extinction of this characteristic handicrafts in the world.

The state attaches great importance to the protection of intangible cultural heritage, on May 20, 2006, yuping xiao flute production skills approved by the state council in the first national intangible cultural heritage list. On June 5, 2007, Liu Zesong, Yao Maolu and Yang Pinghai of Yuping Dong Autonomous County in Guizhou Province were identified by the Ministry of Culture of the State as the representative bearers of the cultural heritage project and were included in the list of 226 representative bearers of the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage projects.