Bao Hailong is an art teacher at the Nanguan District West Fifth Primary School in Changchun, Northeast China's Jilin province, where he promotes the matouqin, or morin khuur, a traditional Mongolian bowed string instrument. [Photo provided to gojilin.gov.cn]
Bao plays the matouqin on campus. Bao was born in Tongliao, North China's Inner Mongolia autonomous region. He is currently the art instructor for the primary school's Matouqin Art Association, which was established in 2019. [Photo provided to gojilin.gov.cn]
Bao Hailong helps children learn to play the matouqin. More than 80 students in the school have learned to play the instrument under Bao. [Photo provided to gojilin.gov.cn]
Bao Hailong teaches children to play the matouqin. [Photo provided to gojilin.gov.cn]