Huan Qing has been looking for different musical elements through gathering and reorganizing folk music whose structures and tones give him new possibilities to create. The natural breath of folk music and heavy ethnic influences are present both in his recording and live performance.

He now lives in Dali, Yunnan as a hand-made instrument maker and recording artist. To date he has gathered and organized a fairly large amount of ethnic music, including music from Yi minority, Hani minority, Naxi minority and so on. He has also been present at a good number of rock/folk music festivals in China.