China Xinjiang Ethnic Musical Instruments Village

　　The Xinjiang Shufu Ethnic Musical Instruments Village is situated in Qicun, Wukushake Township, Shufu County. National Highway 314 runs alongside it, and it is approximately 7 kilometers from downtown Kashgar, which can be directly reached by city bus. Originally, the village had 270 households with 487 people engaged in the making of ethnic musical instruments. The instruments produced fall into 27 major categories and over 50 varieties, with a history of more than 150 years. Since planning and construction began in 1999, the village has established a training base for students from the township vocational secondary school, staffed by five teachers who graduated from normal universities and 11 master artisans. Handmade instruments here include the satar, rawap, dutar, ajike, and wooden bowls. The village is divided into a workshop area and an exhibition hall: in the workshop area, visitors can observe the entire process of instrument-making, while the exhibition hall houses the world’s largest rawap, measuring 3.93 meters in length and 0.46 meters in diameter; a dutar that is 4.7 meters long and 0.75 meters in diameter; and a satar that is 4.95 meters long, which is being prepared for a Guinness World Record application. The village has become a window for promoting ethnic culture and boosting the development of tourism in the county.