Step into Xingyi Wanfenglin and appreciate the Buyi Bayin Hall

The Chinese Buyi Bayin Hall is located in Dushan Village next to the Chouji Market in Wanfenglin Township, Xingyi City. Sometimes there are some folk performances here, sharing the Buyi culture of Southwest Guizhou with tourists traveling in Wanfenglin.

The main gate of Bayin Hall faces north and south. The Buyi Music Hall is oriented east to west. The Buyi Music Hall tourist reception house has a bitter neem tree in front of the door, and there is a magpie nest in the tree, which may be the painstaking effort of the builder. The auxiliary buildings of the Buyi Music Hall are all beautiful Buyi corner buildings, about four or five.

Buyi Bayin is known as the 'sound of nature', 'the unique flower of the Panjiang River', 'the unique sound in the world', and 'the art pearl on the bank of the Nanpanjiang River'. It is also a national intangible cultural heritage.

Buyi Bayin, also known as Buyi Bayin Zuo Singing, is a folk narrative art form passed down from generation to generation by the Buyi people, mainly blowing and beating. The word 'Bayin' originated from a ritual described in the 'Zhou Rituals·Spring Official·Master' in the Western Zhou Dynasty, which said that 'all are broadcasted with Bayin' during the sacrifice, referring to 'gold, stone, soil, leather, silk, wood, gourd, bamboo' Eight kinds of musical instruments.

Today's Buyi Bayin actually has more than eight kinds of musical instruments, as many as 16 kinds of musical instruments, including plucking, stringing, percussion, and wind blowing, including moon guitar, gourd guitar, ox horn hu, ox bone hu, bamboo tube hu, gourd hu, hook gong, small horse gong, bag gong, thorn drum, bronze cymbal, bamboo drum, suona, bamboo flute, Le You and leaves.

In the Chinese Buyi Bayin Hall, feel the unique Buyi culture, DIY your own tie-dye works by hand, and time unknowingly slows down.

|Wanfenglin Chinese Buyi Bayin Hall|

📍Location: Chinese Buyi Bayin Hall in Wanfenglin Scenic Area, Xia Wutun, Xingyi City, Qianxinan Buyi and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, Guizhou Province

Post by elliot_finnegan_thorne | Dec 11, 2023