Thursday, February 26, 2009

Guns and Lushengs

Most citizens in China are forbidden to own guns but the Autonomous Hei Miao are an exception as they hunt for subsistence. Locals hunt wild boar, golden pheasant, and bamboo rat among other things although they admitted that game is not as pleantiful now as in the past.
The Hei Miao continue to make almost everything they need, from food, to clothes, to guns. Handmade gun and lusheng. Basha, Guizhou

The Hei Miao play lusheng music in big groups of more than a dozen people. There are lushengs of all sizes all tuned to harmonize with one another. Some of the bigger bass lushengs might have only 3 or 4 working reeds while smaller ones like the one above have 8 tones or more.


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