Saving old songs

The music of the Hani ethnic group is in risk of disappearing. Wang Kaihao visits the Honghe Hani and Yi autonomous prefecture to look at efforts being made to preserve the important folk culture.

The terraces are singing.

More than 100 members of the Hani ethnic group in Puchun village have turned this valley into a massive stage. Several women are busily transplanting rice seedlings. Perhaps the songs bouncing off every corner of the fields here are a hymn for not only nature, but the spirit of labor.