The organizer of a lusheng team in Miao is called a lusheng head.
The Hmong Lusheng Team is a traditional musical performance team of the Hmong people, featuring the playing of the Lusheng. The head of the lusheng is both the organizer and leader of the lusheng team and the most active person in the village. The head of the lusheng has a certain status and role, and has always been respected by the Miao people. He is not self-appointed, but naturally formed in life.
Lusheng is a wind instrument used by the Miao, Dong and other ethnic minorities in China to play when worshipping their ancestors or celebrating a good harvest, made of bamboo tubes of the lusheng and a blowpipe mounted on a wooden seat, two zhang in height and a foot in size. Kaili, Huangping, Taijiang, from the river and other places in Guizhou's southeast Guizhou, held regularly or irregularly lusheng will be, lusheng festival, jumping lusheng and other activities, Huangping held on September 27th, the Miao Gulong lusheng will be the most representative.
Lusheng playing skills
Each type of each tone column of the reed sheng, and there are high, medium, bass three specifications, their pitch in three octaves. The reedsheng has the same playing technique as the sheng, and is mostly played with a single spit, often with a combination of abdominal vibration and mouth changes to play an air vibration tone, and can play pure fourths, pure fifths, large second, pure octaves and other intervals of double tones, as well as triads or quadruple chords, and can only be played in the keys of C, F, G and other musical pieces.
It can be used for solo, duet, ensemble or accompaniment, and the soloist often dances while playing, which is both lively and vivid. In short, the Miao reed-sheng due to the popularity of different areas, and in the size, tone, volume and modulation of the difference, southeast Guizhou Huangping, Danzhai and Rongjiang around the reed-sheng high-pitched rugged; Qianxi Bijie, Shucheng around the soft lyrical; and Qiannan reed-sheng is majestic and robust.