Legend of lijiang

Yan Bing, who has kept folk music alive from a bar in Southwest China, has gotten himself a Beijing gig, thanks to crowd funding. Chen Nan reports.

When folk singer Yan Bing opened a page on Chinese crowdfunding website Kaistart to raise money for a gig at Beijing's Exhibition Theater, the response was immediate.

Only two weeks later, more than 1 million yuan ($161,000) was raised from some 4,000 people to fund the show on Aug 8.