The Buyi Eight-tone Singing is mainly spread in the towns (sub-district offices) of Bajie, Zerong, Xiawutun, Dingxiao, Pingdong, and Jushan in Xingyi City, Qianxinan Buyi and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, Guizhou Province, and parts of the Nanpanjiang River Basin. Xingyi City is located at the junction of Yunnan, Guizhou, and Guangxi, and is the center of the Kunming-Guiyang-Nanning economic circle, known as the "crossroads of three provinces". Since Xingyi City is a low-latitude, high-altitude area with obvious subtropical monsoon humid climate characteristics, it has the characteristics of "no severe cold in winter, no scorching heat in summer, little snow in three winters, four seasons like spring, and beautiful environment", and is known as the "Little Spring City". According to relevant records, the prototype of the Buyi Eight-tone Music belongs to the court music, and was later continuously developed by folk performers according to the national aesthetic taste and the needs of production and life. During the Yuan and Ming dynasties, Buyi Bayin was incorporated into folk traditional festivals, weddings, funerals, birthday celebrations, house building and other folk festive activities. Its performance form gradually developed from mainly playing wind and percussion to mainly playing stringed instruments, accompanied by singing by golden boys and jade girls. In the Qing Dynasty, in the Buyi-inhabited areas in the Panjiang River Basin, each Buyi village generally opened a music school "Bayin Hall" to teach the "Bayin" skills, and Buyi Bayin was once popular. Buyi Bayin Sitting Singing is an artistic expression form that is played by eight kinds of national musical instruments in four categories: wind, string, plucked, and percussion, and accompanied by Buyi men or men and women singing. Buyi Bayin consists of eight musical instruments: ox bone hu (ox horn hu), gourd qin (gourd hu), moon qin, flute, thorn drum, hairpin, bag gong, pony gong, etc. Later, the folk instruments of the Buyi people, such as Lelang, Leyou and Muye, were added for performance. The performance form is one person with multiple roles without makeup, singing the story with the first person "jumping in" and explaining the story with the third person "jumping out". The eight-tone sitting singing scale mode is based on the pentatonic scale. The main singing style is the Zheng mode, and the Gong tone is the supporting tone. It has the characteristics of the Zheng Gong comprehensive mode. The singing tunes of the eight-tone sitting singing are mainly the main tunes, and the other tunes are collectively called the idle tunes. In terms of singing, there are male tunes and female tunes. The male tune is strong and stable, good at narration, and the singing method combines true and false; the female tune is delicate and graceful, rich in lyricism, and the singing method uses falsetto. When singing, men mostly use the high octave; while girls sing in the original tune, so when singing, not only the timbre produces a strong contrast, but also increases the interest of singing. There are thirty or forty scores for performances, and the commonly used ones are the rise and fall tune, the transition tune, the official tune, the tea pouring tune, the wine drinking tune, etc. Whether it is singing or instrumental music, it is basically in 42 beats. The music is in two sections or two repeated sections, and each section has two or three phrases. The most representative repertoires include: "Buyi Wedding Customs", "Hexitang", "Hu Xi and Nanxiang", "Welcome Tune", "Singing the Story of Wang Yulian", "Toasting Song", "Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai" and more than 40 traditional repertoires and more than 100 modern repertoires. Buyi Bayin embodies the ancient historical and cultural information and local culture of the Buyi people. It is an important part of the traditional culture of the Buyi people. It has important practical significance for studying the history of the development of the opera and local culture of the Buyi people and enhancing the cohesion of the nation. At present, Xingyi has the Bajie Buyi Bayin Opera Troupe and the Nanlong Buyi Bayin Opera Troupe. Due to the lack of written records, and the fact that Buyi Bayin artists only pass on the art to the inside and not to the outside when passing it on orally, and to men and daughters-in-law but not to women, it has formed an artificial obstacle to the inheritance and development of Buyi Bayin, and there are limitations on its spread. In recent years, the number of Buyi Bayin sitting singing performance teams in Xingyi City has been reduced from more than 300 to 9. In particular, Bajie Town, named by the provincial government as the hometown of Buyi Bayin art, became an immigrant town in the reservoir area during the construction of the national key project (Tianshengqiao Hydropower Station). Artists familiar with Buyi Bayin were dispersed to various towns in the city. Since this folk art is a group performance, it is difficult to preserve, inherit and develop it completely. (No pictures yet, welcome to provide.) (No pictures yet, welcome to provide.)