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The article focuses on the Quantou Village Music Association of the Baiyangdian Lake Region, Hebei Province, China. According to association members, the association's history started from a large temple that enshrined and worshipped the medicine god Pi Tong. The temple's music consisted of sheng-guan. A monk named Liao Yi met a man from Quantou and told him that there were tunes that had not yet been taught to the Quantou Village Music Association. He sent a guanzi, sheng and dizi player to the village to continue studying temple music.