The Ministry of Culture has named 963 "Hometowns of Chinese Folk Culture and Art" nationwide. The city's Yinying Town is on the list. It is the only town in the city to receive this honor.
Since the naming activity was launched in January 2007, all naming work has been completed after the Ministry of Culture’s review, publicity and other procedures. 39 cities, counties, districts, towns and streets in our province, including Huozhou City, have received this title.
Yinying drum is a performance form that integrates speaking, singing, dancing and accompaniment. It is a brilliant and wonderful flower in the traditional culture of Yinying. Traditional drum performances are always the most popular during the Lantern Festival. For a long time, Ninggu has been deeply loved by the masses for its unique dance posture, concise vernacular, simple and lively tunes, and vigorous and vivid performance forms, and has been passed down to this day.
In the late 1990s, Ninggu was facing an epochal crisis. However, as the hometown of Ninggu art, Yinying Town was unwilling to lose Ninggu art, an artistic treasure that has gone through thousands of years of vicissitudes and has been passed down to this day. Start working hard to explore ways to discover, inherit and revitalize the art of drumming. After the village was evacuated and merged into a town at the end of 2000, the cultural development space was further expanded, providing superior material conditions and development environment for the inheritance and revitalization of the drum art. In 2001, Yinying Town held an advanced cultural construction exchange seminar attended by more than 100 cultural figures from all walks of life. The whole town, especially the cultural and art circles, formed a common sense in the rescue and protection of drum art. In 2002, Yinying Town successively held innovative local culture seminars, specifically focusing on traditional culture such as drums and dramas, and pointed out the direction for the future development and positioning of drum art. In order to guide the healthy, rapid and correct development of Ninggu art, the town government of Yinying Town took the lead in formulating the development plan and measures for Ninggu art and established the Ninggu Culture Research Center. Sanquan Village successively established the Ruizhi Culture Department to specialize in Ninggu art. Collection, arrangement, research and creation of drum art. In just a few years, the art of playing drums in Yinying gradually began to revitalize, and playing drum cultural villages such as Xiayinying Village, Sanquan Village, and Xiabaiquan Village emerged in the town. In 2002, Xiayinying Village grandly launched a large-scale square drum performance with more than 100 people, which was the first shot in the revitalization of the drum art. After that, the drum programs created by Xiabaiquan Village and Sanquan Village successively appeared on the stage of art performances at the town, district and city levels, and were well received by leaders at all levels and the masses. In the continuous reform efforts of generations of drum artists, modern drumming continues to absorb a large number of folk music and folk dance materials on the basis of inheriting the original movements and tunes, and constantly absorbs the strengths of local commentary and traditional cultural and artistic forms of Lianhualuo. It is more lively, straightforward and full of charm in expressing people's lives, ideals, aspirations and emotions, and has become the main force active in rural culture in the new era. In 2006, in order to better protect and inherit the art of drumming, Yinying drumming declared a national intangible cultural heritage.