[Explanation] Beiguan is a kind of silk and bamboo music widely circulated in Quangang District, Quanzhou, Fujian. It is also called "Sister Flower" with the "living fossil of ancient music" Nanyin.

Although Beiguan has the reputation of "Emperor Son", it was also included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list in 2006.

However, the protection and inheritance of Beiguan still aroused concerns among insiders and outsiders.

In the past few days, reporters have visited Quangang many times to understand the persistence of the older generation of Beiguan artists and the inheritance and innovation of Beiguan’s “new generation”.

　　[Explanation] When Beiguan became popular, its reputation once spread far to Southeast Asia.

Since then, due to historical reasons, the scores of the Northern Wind Instrument and Chuanzhao have been lost more, and the genre is on the verge of loss.

The young Liu Zhengzong is the representative inheritor of Quanzhou Beiguan. He has been fascinated by him since he was a child. After graduating from high school in 1974, he followed local old artists to study Beiguan.

In the past fifty years, Liu Zhengzong's obsession with Beiguan has remained unabated.

Nowadays, while volunteering to teach Beiguan at the Quangang Cultural Center, Liu Zhengzong also offers free Beiguan training classes at home to "make up lessons" and "open small stoves" for students who love Beiguan.

　　[Concurrent] Liu Zhengzong, Teacher of North Management of Quangang District Cultural Center

　　Cultural centers are training during the day, so some comrades cannot participate.

And they are very enthusiastic about learning and love to learn Beiguan.

So I used two nights (every week) to train them for free.

At first my family didn't understand it, but they slowly accepted it.

　　[Explanation] When people appreciate Beiguan, because most of the performers are elderly, they sometimes jokingly say "all for the elderly".

And this situation may be changed with the emergence of the "new generation" of Beiguan.

　　[Explanation] Zheng Huihui, born in 1995, is the first student in the Beiguan direction of Music Performance at Quanzhou Art School.

After graduating from school in 2015, Zheng Huihui worked as a music teacher in Fengwei Central Primary School, and went to the Beiguan Heritage Protection Center on weekends and summer vacations.

Zheng Huihui told reporters that the performance of Beiguan is relatively boring. In order to make Beiguan more acceptable, she and her classmates often discuss how to add more ornamental elements to Beiguan.

　　[Concurrent] Zheng Huihui, head of Quangang Beiguan Inheritance Center

　　Then we are now saying that we hope to make an improvement from singing. For example, we may walk or move, and then we can knead in some physical things. This may be more ornamental.

More ornamental may appear in the public field of view more frequently.

　　Reporting by reporter Kening Quanzhou, Fujian

Editor in charge: [Liu Xian]