By Fran Lu
Some courts in southwestern China鈥檚 Guizhou province have hired folk singers to work as mediators in a bid to settle legal disputes among local ethnic minorities.
In a 2023 video that recently went viral on social media, a man in Rongjiang County, Guizhou province, took a woman from a neighbouring village to court after she spread a folk song she made up to defame him and his wife in several chat groups.
Both parties are from the Shui ethnic group, for whom folk singing is a major way of…