There are two kinds of drums named after "Taiping Drum": one is a fan-shaped single-sided drum with handle and the other is a cylindrical double-sided drum. Although there are great differences in drum types and dance methods, they are all used to express people's desire for peace, prosperity and harvest. The fan-shaped Taiping drum (or single drum and sheepskin drum) spreads all over the country and the Han, Manchu and Mongolian nationalities. Taiping Drum was very popular in Beijing in Qing Dynasty. Fu Cha Dunchong's Chronicle of Yanjing reads: "The iron ring of Taiping Drum is covered with donkey skin, which looks like a round fan, and the iron ring is decorated under the handle. Children are in groups of three and five, and they are beaten with cane sticks. The drums ring in winter and winter, and they ring up and down, which is the so-called welcome drum. " Now, except that the drum surface is covered with sheepskin or paper, it is exactly the same as that contained in that year, and people also regard the drum sound at the end of the year and the beginning of the year as a symbol of peace, which will be a symbol of good years. In the past, after the capital area entered the twelfth lunar month, drum makers went door to door along the village to repair drums and replace their heads, thus ensuring the development of Taiping drums. At that time, most of the people who played the Taiping Drum were young women and children. They danced while performing and sang the folk song "Song of Rope" intermittently, which was free and lively. After the outbreak of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, customs gradually fell into the cold, and/kloc-0 began to recover in the 1950s, and/kloc-0 flourished again in the 1980s. At this time, although the dancers of that year were nearly sixty years old, they played the Taiping drum, and their dancing and dynamics were still so beautiful and brisk. Drums awaken the memories of their girlhood, and the performance of selflessness radiates their youthful brilliance, which is the mystery of "human culture".
Lanzhou Taiping Drum is 1 m long and 50- 100 cm in diameter. The drumhead is covered with waste cowhide, and the drumstick is twisted into a whip with cowhide tendons. During the performance, the dancer slung the drum on his right shoulder, and the drum body landed on his left calf, about 10 cm from the ground. There is a small iron ring on the drum, which is fastened with the thumb of the left hand, so that the drum body can be stabilized when dancing. To wave such a huge drum freely depends not only on the strong physical strength of the actors, but also on the professionalism and special skills of the dancers and dancers. The drum body is painted with red paint, painted with a golden lion pattern, and the drum surface is painted with a black-and-white Taiji diagram to increase the magical power of the drum and express the meaning of earth-shattering and thundering. The performance routines include "kite turning over", "riding a horse and whipping" and "shooting geese with a bow", and most of them are beating drums and dancing extraordinary. The drums rumbled and the sound shook for a mile or two. When dozens of drummers beat drums and dance at the same time, the sound momentum can be imagined. In the performance, gongs and drums were loud, which set off the cheerful atmosphere of the Spring Festival and enhanced people's confidence in welcoming a safe New Year.