Lusheng is popular with variable sizes and number of pipes, among the Miao, the Yao , the Dong, the Yi, the Zhuang tribes of Southwest China. In the villages of theses tribes, lusheng ensemble are often seen for family party, wedding or festivals. These instruments are all related in keys, with lengths from 20 cm to two metres or more, viocess from treble to bass, and pipes from 5 to 8 (lower, the fewer; the lowest with only pipe), it often seen in the copuntryside. The professional lusheng are made pipes from 13 to 18. The pipes on the instruments are encased in a bamboo resonating tube called mangtong, the lusheng is played as a dance accompaniment by the dancers themselves in festivals ot other happy events. On same grand occasions lusheng players as many as a hundred or two tend to from a heating sight. One of texts of Ming dynasty (1368-1644) sated that in the first spring month every year the Miao people danced in hte moonlight all the night, men playing the lusheng and women joining in by shaking bells with songs.