| 1 | Brass drums are the Bouyei people's instruments of deity worshipping. | |
| 2 | Most Buyi people inhabit in Guizhou, accounting for 97 % of the total Buyi people in China. | |
| 3 | The Miaos and Dongs and Boyes all have splendid musical traditions and heritages. | |
| 4 | Ritual exchange of gifts is a way of living for the Buyi people and a mode of altruistic behavior. | |
| 5 | This paper also hopes to offer some authentic language data to help people of other nationalities or other cultures to get to know Buyi language, especially its speech sound system. |