Going upstream from Maliang Town, 5 kilometers away from the urban area of Xingyi, there is a Buyi village called Waga Village among the green mountains. There is a dam in the village, which is surrounded by dense banyan branches and leaves like a giant umbrella, and has become the traditional venue for the Waga high-platform lion lantern. The cloth high-platform lion lantern of Waga is made of 6 or 8 four-room tables overlapping the Tacheng high platform. The top one is turned upside down, with four legs facing the sky. The "lion" circles from the bottom to the top and dances in the air on the four table legs. In this area, there is a saying that "Waga is the lion on the high platform, and other lions have no opinion", which is enough to illustrate the influence of Waga Buyi high-platform lion lantern among the masses. Lion dance began in the Three Kingdoms and gradually became popular after the Southern and Northern Dynasties. There is an ancient record of "a lion leading the way to ward off evil spirits". In the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, lion dance activities became more widespread. Lion dance activities with religious colors have been popular in the area of the North and South Panjiang River for a long time. Many Buyi villages still preserve this traditional activity, forming a lion dance with ethnic characteristics. For more than 100 years, the Waga lion lantern has been passed down from generation to generation and has been passed down to this day. Waga is not only good at playing lions, but also amazing at "music instruments" (percussion instruments). Percussion instruments are composed of horse gongs, bowls, hall gongs, drums, etc., with unique playing methods and many variations, with hundreds of types. Waga's Buyi high-platform lion lantern is quite famous in Xingyi City. In 1991, it was invited to Shanghai to participate in the "First Large-scale Chinese Folk Customs and Customs Carnival" and was well received; after Japanese friends went to Waga for inspection in October of the same year, more than 160 people from 17 countries and regions including France, Britain, the United States, the Netherlands, Singapore, India, Ethiopia and Hong Kong, China, visited Waga to watch the high-platform lion lantern.