Documentary record of playing waist drum

Because Hengshan county is located in the border of northern Shaanxi, the external traffic is inconvenient and it is less affected by the outside world, so the original and rough atmosphere of waist drum is also preserved. Adults put on flower vests, red trousers and "white sheep belly towel" unique to northern Shaanxi, and their faces are painted with heavy makeup; However, the waist drum around me is not colored, and the original tree pattern is looming. Although the equipment list is simple, the younger generation is particularly eager to drum up, as if to vent all the ups and downs of life over the years. On the seventh day of the first lunar month, drums are always carved, and when the suona blows, the waist drum team quickly gathers. However, the euphoria brought by the Chinese New Year has been set off again. The waist drum team, under the leadership of the "umbrella head" (captain), went door to door to pay New Year greetings. The pace is unruly, the loess flies high, and the individual. I visited every household in the village, and I was still unfinished.

Young students happily came to the spacious slope at the entrance of the village and performed "venue drums". But when the baton in the umbrella head turned again, the suona player immediately played music; The younger generation's arms are as thick as pythons, holding drumsticks and tapping the wooden drums tied to their waists. Every drumming action is so full, deep and powerful, as if it won't stop without knocking through the drum skin. In an instant, the drums, which are as dense as showers, are heard, like waves rushing to land and the other side. Standing on this edge, I only feel that the sand is shaking slightly, and there seems to be a strange commotion on the earth. But this round of rapid drumming is just a warm-up exercise, and the younger generation is indifferent to the rhythm, which is worth watching. Some younger generations suddenly jump, and then at the moment before landing, while playing waist drums, they twist their feet like playing football and kick hard to the ground, turning up the loess on the ground as high as possible. Suddenly, the drums were deafening, and the yellow sand was flying all over the sky. It looks really great. After the game, some young students moved their legs back and forth on the ground with the rhythm, leaving messy footprints on the ground; Some epigenetic twisted their bodies, their feet slipped forward, and a long line was drawn on the ground, as if it had been crushed by a roller. Jumping and jumping, in the end, it seems that even the audience does not exist in the eyes of the younger generation. They are intoxicated with the dance steps, and with the inner fluctuations, they jump out of the unruly pace on the vast yellow land. Everything is still, and the raised loess slowly descends, touching the sweat of the young man. When the young man arrived in Tun, he became a yellow "native", but everyone was smiling and pulling for a mile or two.

The performance of Ansai waist drum is characterized by a huge lineup, and even thousands of people can participate in the performance; Sometimes several waist drum teams are connected together, but they can actually be pulled apart for a mile or two. Dancers' costumes are mainly plain casual clothes that imitate ancient soldiers, or yellow or red Baotou, which sets people off obviously against the loess background. Ansai waist drum is mainly to master whether the arms can cooperate freely, and then play the rhythm of the drum at will. Often a young man as strong as an ox will collapse to the ground when his waist bulges down. Ansai waist drum performance can be divided into two types: road drum and field drum, which are similar to Hengshan county waist drum, but the field drum has not changed much, mainly in the form of "riding", "one-legged scare", "turning around" and "horse stance just look". Just look at these famous tricks, you can guess the difficulty and madness of Ansai's waist drum. Dancers' decorations have the characteristics of Shang and Zhou Dynasties, and Luochuan waist drum has different styles, which is known as the most primitive waist-twisting samurai dance in China. Luochuan waist drum is called jumping drum. The size of the drum is equivalent to the size of the washbasin. The drumstick is slender and powerful, and the drum sound is particularly loud. The dancers are all corsets, dressed in pure white and yellow background, wrapped in white and yellow square towels, with small flags on their backs, triangular shirts and Shang and Zhou bronzes on their clothes. Some actors wear a wide belt around their waist and several big copper bells with fists hanging on them. At first glance, it looks like a military commander in Beijing opera. During the performance, the "bounce drum" is tied to the dancer's waist. Because the drum is big and the hammer is long, the player's action range is very large, and he must have great jumping ability to jump well. The southern performance of "Jumping Drum" is mainly square, which is woven into various ancient battle formations. The drums and gongs on the field were loud and full of fighting atmosphere, which made people stunned.