Shanxi folk culture includes lanterns, red fires, fireworks, stilts, land boat races, bamboo horse races, cart dances, chair dances, lion dances, dragon dances, dragon boat dances, yellow platforms, upside-down flower drums, Iron rod and back stick, fisherman playing with sea clams, Mr. Shen sitting in a sedan chair, Shanxi Blood Society Fire, Yellow River Lantern Festival, Taiyuan Society Fire, Huairen Wanghuo, Pingding Tower Fire, Nanzhuang Fire, Wei Feng Gong and Drum, Jiangzhou Drum Music, etc. .
There are dozens of varieties of drums in Shanxi, among which Shanxi Weifeng Gongs and Drums are the representative. The awe-inspiring gongs and drums are a folk square art popular in Huozhou, Hongdong, Fenxi, and Linfen. Its characteristic is "awesomeness": from the configuration of gongs and drums to the organization, performance, and dress of the performance team, they all show the awe-inspiring force. In the second year of Wude (619), Emperor Gaozu of the Tang Dynasty, Li Shimin fought against Liu Wu and Zhou's tribe in Huozhou. He beat drums to fight, beat gongs to withdraw his troops, and won the victory, so the majestic gongs and drums were passed down.