Jiyang Drum Rice-planting Song has a history of more than 2,000 years, which was formed in the Xia and Shang Dynasties, perfected in the Tang and Song Dynasties, and flourished in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and is known as one of the three major rice-planting songs in Shandong together with Haiyang Rice-planting Song and Jiaozhou Rice-planting Song. It has strong traditional cultural characteristics of the Han nationality and is an excellent heritage of the Yellow River culture.
According to the evidence, as far back as the Shang and Zhou Dynasties, the ancestors living on the plains of the north of Shandong Province, after every harvest, they could not help but raise the forked rake, sticks and other labor tools for plowing and planting, and while bumping and banging them, they danced and danced, which was both a sacrifice to the heavens and the earth and the intention of reverence for nature, and also an expression of the desire to celebrate the joy of the harvest. Therefore, no matter men and women, young and old, will participate in it, group dance. For a long time, it has formed a relatively primitive drum rice-planting song. Although there is still no sense of drums, but the impact of the production tools, beating and the formation of rhythm, can be regarded as the function of today's drums.
Along with the long river of human history, the flow, spread, the increase in social production capacity, the improvement of labor tools, the richness of life, etc., drums rice-planting songs from the content and form of continuous development and change, such as the accompaniment of the percussion of the labor tools, or rice-planting props, has been gradually increased with umbrellas, buckets, pots, dustbins, etc., the dance action pace, but also different than the previous, and gradually diversified, to the Tang and Song Dynasties, some dance routines, the dance, the rhythm of the dance. Tang and Song dynasties, some dance routines have been gradually molded, the Ming and Qing dynasties, has been widely circulated in the Han folk. And the formation of a larger scale, evolved into a kind of Rubei rural Han cultural practices.
After the founding of New China, the drums and rice-planting songs were revived with the gongs and drums celebrating the victory of liberation. The first to be revived is the northern area of Jiyang, which has always had a broad mass base. That is, many villages around Renfeng, Jiangji, Sanjiao, Quji, and Suomiao along the Tuhe River bordering Huimin and Shanghe counties. Drum rice-planting songs have become a part of the cultural and spiritual life of the peasants in this area. In addition to the festivals, there is no lack of drum rice-planting songs in the social events such as the anti-American war against the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, the sending of children to join the army, and even the building of the commune, the "Great Leap Forward". Although the three natural disasters, people do not have enough to eat, have no time to take care of the drum rice-planting songs; "Cultural Revolution" of ten years of havoc, "Four Olds" hat and cover so that people do not dare to relate to the drum rice-planting songs, but deep-rooted in the lives of the people and the people's spiritual world! But y rooted in the people's lives and the people's spiritual world in the flower of Han folk art, no matter what kind of social wind and rain, drums rice-planting has never broken its roots.
In 1978, the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Party, brought the second spring breeze of reform and opening up in the heart, in the Jiyang land, the drums rice-planting this branch of folk art flower, showing a deep roots, art evergreen tenacity, the Jiyang drums rice-planting recovery, has begun to get the county party committee and county government and townships party committees and governments to pay attention to and support the Spring Festival in 1986, the whole county In 1986, the Spring Festival, the county's cultural activities, Renfeng Township team took the lead in the drum rice-planting dance into the county, and a hit, colorful red, reputation. In general, it promoted the development and popularization of the county's drum rice-planting activities, especially in the villages along the Tuhe River, especially prominent, every New Year's Eve, from the first to the fifteenth day of the first month of the first year, it became a golden time for the villages to practice and string villages to each other and give performances. Participation in the performances is especially enthusiastic. There are gray-haired old people, there are lively and lovely children, young men and women are even more proud to be able to perform on the field, and some of them are the whole family together, joining the ranks of the village performance. During the Spring Festival, a drum rice-planting team traveled to the east and west, into the village and the city, and between villages, you send me to receive each other, and perform in tandem with each other, which is very lively. For the traditional New Year and Lantern Festival added a festive atmosphere and rich colors of local ethnic culture.
Beginning in 1990, Jiyang Drum Rice-planting Song was invited to and successfully participated in various provincial and municipal performances, and after the performance, the scope of praise became wider and wider, and the popularity became higher and higher.
In 1991, the county cultural bureau invited dance experts from Shandong province and Jinan city to visit representative villages such as Jin Li village in Qu Di, Si Jia Fang village in Ren Feng, Liu He village, etc., to see live performances and visit old artists, so that the Jiyang Drums Rice-planting Song was systematized and specialized, and a theoretical summary of the art was made. Since then, it has participated in the national rice-planting song competitions and won prizes through the team training organized by the county cultural bureau. Dispatched by the Ministry of Culture, went to Germany, France, Japan and other countries for visiting performances, and was successful. In the country was invited to teach skills to all over the art exchange activities are also one after another.
In 2006, Renfeng drum rice-planting song was listed as the first batch of intangible cultural heritage protection list of Shandong Province, the local government also took this opportunity to actively prepare for the drum rice-planting song for the development of cultural industries. At present, a series of plans and measures have been developed.