The China Daily has a nice article on the attempt to preserve the musical form known as nanyin.

"Nanyin is a traditional opera sung in the Minnan (south Fujian) dialect. Closely tied with imperial and Buddhist music, poetic rhythm and drama tunes from Central China, Nanyin is accompanied by a band of erxian, a two-stringed vertical instrument, sanxian, a three-stringed plucked instrument, dongxiao, a vertical flute, nanpa (bent-neck pipa) and paiban (clappers)."

The form has migrated with the Minnan people to Taiwan, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Singapore and Europe.