In the era of drastic social changes, traditional local knowledge is losing rapidly. However,some members of the new generation seem to be creative, transferring traditions to specific objects or reproducing them. This phenomenon occurs in and outside schools. This study selected the Yi ethnic region in southwest China , and explored how to establish and change the related multiple bidirectional relations through the two fields of music and design, which have obvious influence on the inheritance and change of local knowledge. And explore how anthropologists, local educators, business people, students and young people participate in this process . At the same time, it criticizes the narrow-minded cognition of cultural value, and tries to prove the dynamic characteristics of culture itself and how to recognize the value of culture across ethnical and national boundaries.