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The Horse-head fiddle(马头琴mǎtóuqín) is a bow shaped musical instrument usually used by the Mongolian people(蒙古族Ménggǔzú), one of the ethnic minorities of Chine. The musical instrument is named like this because its head is usually carved like the shape of a horse head. It is also called "Chaoer", "Molinhuer", "huqin (Huqin is a general term for certain two-stringed bowed instruments, such as erhu, jinghu)", "horse tail huqin" and so on. It is popular among the Mongolian people in Inner Mongolia, Gansu, Xinjiang and the northeastern part of China. The horse head fiddle of Mongolian has a long history. It is evolved from Xiqin, a kind of string instrument of the Tang and Song Dynasties. During the reign of Genghis Khan, the musical instrument was popularized among the people.

The Buluotuo Scriptures(布洛陀经诗Bùluòtuó Jīngshī) is the primitive religious scriptures of the Zhuang ethnic group of China. It is also the creative epic(a long book, poem, or film, whose story extends over a long period of time or tells of great events) and folk literary work of the Zhuang ethnics in China. The scriptures are the five-word style poem that takes the language and form of poem to sing and praise the feat of creating the earth and the heaven, initiating all the things, arranging the orders of the universe and constituting ethic of Bulongtuo, the ancient god of the Zhuang people. The scriptures tell about the formation of the universe, the origination of human beings and various farm crops and domestic animals as well as the living customs of people in the primitive ages. They also enlighten people to pray, eliminate evils and pursue a happy life. The whole body of the scriptures is as long as ten thousand lines, which can generally be divided into three parts, i.e., creative myth, ethics and religious taboo. Since ancient times, Buluotuo Scriptures had been handed down by oral means. Later, while sang and transmitted among people, the scriptures were also conserved by the help of written language of the ancient Zhuang ethnics.