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Yicheng Flower Drum is a traditional dance art of Han nationality in Yicheng County, Shanxi Province. Playing flower drums in Yicheng County, Shanxi Province is also called teasing flower drums and making flower drums. The performance forms are rich and colorful, and the rhythm is very lively and magnificent. Yicheng County is located in the south of Linfen City, Shanxi Province. Since ancient times, it has been linked to Shaanxi and Gansu in the west and to the throats of Henan and Zhao in the east. After 1000 years, Yicheng Flower Drum not only evolved into a unique folk dance, but also spread to Shaanxi, Inner Mongolia, Tianjin, Henan and other multilateral provinces.
Throughout southern Shanxi, there are forms of playing flower drums. Wei Yi becomes a flower drum, which is unique and extraordinary. After being passed down from generation to generation, the performers carried a few flower drums on their backs, which made the audience dazzled and dazzled. Moreover, they can jump on the parallel bars carried by two people and perform at high altitude, which is very popular among the masses. After thousands of years of circulation, Yicheng Flower Drum has spread all over the county, from elderly people in their seventies and eighties to children in their seventies and eighties. Basically, everyone can play Yicheng Flower Drum. Yicheng Flower Drum is a household name in Yicheng, and it is well known to all women and children.
On May 20th, 2006, Yicheng Flower Drum was approved by the State Council to be included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list.
Yicheng Flower Drum has rough movements, cheerful rhythm, warm emotions and simple style. Playing flower drums is an essential part of various festivals and celebrations in Yicheng. The Spring Festival is the climax of the flower drum performance. There is a local folk song, "From the first day of the first month to the fifteenth day of the first month, Yicheng goes from east to west and from north to south, and centenarians and five-year-olds play flower drums."
The performance forms of Yicheng Flower Drum are mainly divided into two types. One is to perform a festival. Whenever there is a major festival, you can walk and play in the street and have a parade. Simple in action and slow in pace, it is often suitable for traditional social fire programs of Han nationality such as yangko and sedan chair. The other is venue performance, which is also divided into two forms. One is to stop and perform in a crowded place. The performance in this case is generally called flower drum, and another form of venue performance is square performance. Musical instruments are relatively simple, such as ancient paintings, big Su gong, big gong and small war drum. Qupai includes Five Flowing Water, Flowing Water, Five Hammer, etc. And the vocals are mostly local folk songs, usually led by flower drummers and female seedlings, and everyone is very harmonious.
On major festivals, the flower drums of Yicheng people always take the opportunity to show their faces and perform to their heart's content. At this time, the drummer was full of energy, walking and playing in the street, with generous movements, neat drums and slow rhythm, and often performed with the Han social fire programs such as yangko and sedan chair.
Yicheng Huagu also likes to stop and perform in crowded places for a while. Artists have to show their unique skills when performing at this time, so they are also called flower drums. Square performance has developed into a unique Han dance. This kind of performance has a lively rhythm, a warm atmosphere and climaxes. There are more than 20 performances and more than 40 kinds of drums and qupai.