The Shangdang Bayinhui is widely spread in the six counties (cities and districts) of Jincheng City in the southeast of Shanxi Province. The Bayinhui is a folk music group that mainly uses eight kinds of musical instruments, including drums, gongs, cymbals, shengs, flutes, flutes and pipes, hence the name Bayinhui. The main performance venues of the Shangdang Bayinhui are ancient temple fairs, festival celebrations, street stage sitting and playing, wedding and funeral performances, etc. The wind and percussion instruments of the Bayinhui are mainly suona, sheng, mouth-held instrument, and dumb cavity for wind instruments; high-pitched huhu, alto huhu, old huhu, banhu, erhu, yangqin, erxian, etc. for stringing and playing; old drum, same drum, flat drum, hand board, gong, bangzi, etc. for percussion. The instrumental suites include 31 pieces such as "Big Ten Parts", "Small Ten Parts" and "Ten Scenes". The Shangdang Bayinhui was formed and developed during the Yuan and Ming Dynasties, and matured and flourished in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties. After 1949, the Bayinhui organizations in Jincheng were relatively popular and particularly prosperous. During the Cultural Revolution, the performances of the Bayinhui were banned and almost died out. After 1980, the Bayinhui revived and prospered. In recent years, the Shangdang Bayinhui was invited by the Ministry of Culture to perform in Zhongnanhai and the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. The Shangdang Bayinhui also won the gold medal in the Shanxi International Gong and Drum Festival and the National "Star Award" competition. At present, the Shangdang Bayinhui, which is mainly a non-governmental organization, has aging artists and a lack of people to inherit. Many things of artistic value are gradually lost, and they are in urgent need of rescue, protection, development and prosperity.