A world record is achieved as a total of 2,019 people play the matouqin – a traditional horse-headed musical instrument – together. They were performing during the opening ceremony for a matouqin music festival at Qian Gorlos Mongol autonomous county in Songyuan, in Northeast China’s Jilin province, on July 13. The number topped the previous record set in 2008 and set a new Guinness World Record. [Photo/VCG]
A total of 2,019 matouqin players form a huge rectangle near Chagan Lake in Songyuan, Jilin province, on July 13. [Photo/VCG]
Organizers of the event receive a Guinness World Record certificate for the most people playing the matouqin together, on July 13. [Photo/VCG]