Is the night flute playing a love signal between young Miao men and women?

In Qiandongnan Miao area, night flute is deeply loved by people and spread widely. Especially young men have special feelings for it, and the habit of playing night flute for many years has become a signal of love between young men and women of Miao nationality. When night falls after work or during the slack season.

When the breeze blows, Miao boys come to the neighboring village in groups of three and five, gently play the night flute and invite the girls out to sing a duet. In the early days of love, two young men and women usually move together, so the night flute is often played together with two songs with the same pitch besides solo. Most of the music played is love songs with words, such as "Well Tuned", "The Moon is Out" and "Girl, You are Sleeping".

In some Miao villages in Guizhou, every night when the bright moon is in the sky and everything is silent, Miao boys will bring their night flutes to the neighborhood or window of their beloved girl's house and use them to tell their love for their sweetheart. Simple and euphemistic tunes are floating in the night sky, as touching as Yue Xian. When a girl hears the young man's "invitation song", she will immediately go out to meet him. They all sat by the bushes or on the lawn. The young man continued to play the night flute and the girl played the bamboo flute. When they met, they didn't say a word, but expressed their love, praise and yearning for a better life with music.

Popular in the fruit forest trend in Rongshui area of northern Guangxi, Miao people often play when they go up the mountain to produce, catch up with the slope or sing accompaniment, all year round, day and night.