Chongqing "Xiaohe Drum and Gong Music"

as one of the most representative forms of folk wind and percussion music in the the Bayu area of China(a collective term for Chongqing and Sichuan in China)

was successfully inscribed on the third batch of China's National Intangible Cultural Heritage list in 2011. This instrumental art form

deeply rooted in folk tradition

carries centuries of cultural memory from the Bayu area. The study of Chongqing" Xiaohe Drum and Gong Music" serves as a crucial vehicle for researching the morphology of Bayu folk music

the ecology of folk customs

and the regional aesthetic psychology.