I love the flower drums in my hometown.
She is like a peach blossom with dew, fresh and beautiful; She is like a river flowing with clear water, cheerful and stable; She is more like a group of lively and lovely village girls, charming and playful, dignified and wild, full of vitality. Since the birth of the Ming Dynasty, she has been singing and laughing all the way, and has been widely favored by people of all ages, enduring in Mika; In the new period of reform and opening up, it is full of artistic charm, with frequent performances in Beijing, Shanxi and Shaanxi in the north, Henan, Anhui and Zhejiang in the south and Tibet in the southwest. Performed on the same stage with the famous Fengyang Flower Drum at home and abroad, and fought against the famous Ansai waist drum. I'm glad that my hometown has such charming artistic treasures!
The traditional flower drum performance in Yicheng is mainly in small group activities. Generally, 89 people are a small group. Let's count: a drummer, a gong player, a cymbal player, an idea player, a clown and four young people. The drummer tied the drum obliquely under his chin and stuck it on his cheek; Gong players will bend a bamboo stick with a width of two fingers from the back to the waist and from the shoulder to the waist. Gong players, people who play tricks and clap cymbals will all dress up on stage. Clowns behave like clowns on the stage, being naughty; Miao Zi dressed up as a village girl, beautiful and wild.
The performance has already started. Gong, cymbals and ideas suddenly sounded at the same time. After that, the drummer "appeared" in the cheerful percussion music. Suddenly, there was a cheerful and loud voice in the field. I saw the drummer waving his flexible arms, beating the hammer with HongLing, dancing up and down and dancing left and right; Bodybuilding figure, constantly "bright" out of various postures; Or squatting on a horse, or looking for a needle in a haystack, or exploring the moon with an ape's arm, or spreading her wings, and so on.
With the movements of drums, gongs, ideas and cymbals, we twist our waist, arms and hips together, and beat each other with drummers to make various sounds together; Or slow as a river, or fierce as autumn wind, or light as idle clouds ... really beautiful and wonderful.
Especially where drummers and gongs and drums are playing fiercely, they all show a "confrontational" driving posture and do not give in to each other. Either you enter and I return, or I enter and you return. It is like a dragon out of water, like a tiger in the wind. How can it be a good word! At this time, I saw the red tassels of the drumsticks flying up and down, and the gongs fluttered with the bamboo sticks. It's really dazzling
In the representative works of drums and cymbals, clowns with felt hats and white noses are interspersed in the performance team, making all kinds of funny shapes, using both hands and feet, which makes people laugh; The four "young people" dressed beautifully also performed various performances; After a while, she walked lightly like a fairy; For a time, it was like a village girl playing, lively and enchanting, dazzling ... The flower drum played for a while, and the drum music came to an abrupt end. The young people gasped and sang: On the eighth day of the first month, the red light was hung on the fifteenth day of the first month ... After singing, they performed it again from the beginning.
The Book of Songs says, "Yang Yang, a gentleman, holds the spring left and invites me to leave the house right. It was fun! Gentleman, left and right recruit me to ao. Very interesting! "It's about the cheerful scenes and happy mood of the working people after their hard work, holding musical instruments and singing and dancing. I think the poem "The Book of Songs Gentleman Yang Yang" is also a vivid portrayal of Yicheng Flower Drum. Performance activities fully express people's joy after work and on the day of the festival, as well as happy scenes.
May the flowers of Yicheng Flower Drum bloom more and more brightly!