I love the flower drums in my hometown.
She is like a branch of peach blossom with dew, fresh and beautiful; she is like a river flowing clear water, cheerful and smooth; she is more like a group of lively and lovely village girls, charming and not lacking in playfulness, demure through the wild, and all body into a vigorous vitality. She was born from the Ming Dynasty, all the way, singing and laughing, widely favored by the people of all dynasties, everlasting fragrance; reform and opening up to a new period, but also glowing artistic charm, the north to Beijing, Jin, Shaanxi, Henan, Anhui, Zhejiang, Southwest to Tibet, frequent performances. Fengyang drums with the fame of the same stage, and the famous Ansai waist drums a showdown. I rejoice that my hometown has such fascinating artistic treasures!
The traditional Yicheng Flower Drum playing method is based on small group activities. Generally eight or nine people for a small group. Counting: a drummer, a gong player, a cymbal clapper, a beatboxer, a clown, four seedlings. The drummer ties the drum diagonally under the chin, one side of the cheeks; the gong player will be a two-finger wide gabion, from the back waist upwards, from the shoulder above the bend, the gong player, playing the cymbal clapper, all for the stage short beat makeup; clowns for the stage clowns, mischievous, mischievous; and the seedlings for the village girl makeup, beautiful and wild.
The performance began. The gongs, cymbals and dots suddenly sound at the same time. After that, the drummer "appeared" in the cheerful percussion sound. At once, the field played a cheerful, resounding sound. See drummers swing flexible arm, decorated with red silk cloth drum hammer, up and down, left and right dance; fit body, constantly "light" a variety of postures; or riding a horse crouching crotch, or the bottom of the sea to find a needle, or the ape arm to explore the moon, or the golden phoenix spreading its wings ...... varies.
And with the drumming action, playing the gong, playing the dots, beat the cymbals, together with twisting waist, arms, hips, with the drummer, interplay of strikes, together with a variety of sound; or slow as a river flowing water, or fierce as the autumn wind through the wild, or as scattered as the idle cloud scrolling ...... is really beautiful, wonderful.
Particularly the drummer and gong player, playing to the intense place, the two lit up the "confrontation" driving position, each do not give way, or you into my back, or I into your back, its potential as a dragon out of the water, such as a tiger downwind, how a good word! At this time, only to see the drumstick red tassel up and down, hanging gong with bamboo gimbal leisurely trembling. It is really dazzling to watch.
In the drums, cymbals in the work, wearing a felt hat, painted white nose clowns interspersed between the performance team, for a variety of amusing, hand of the dance, the foot of the dance, hilarious; dress up the four "seedlings", but also a variety of performances; a moment such as the nymphs down to the world, a light step; a moment such as the village girls play playful, lively! Sassy, let a person dazzled ...... wait until the flower drums played for a while, the drums and music stopped, the seedlings on the one hand panting, while singing: the first month in the first month, the first month of the fifteenth hanging red lanterns ...... sung, and from the beginning of a performance.
Poetry: "The gentleman Yang Yang, the left stick spring right move me by room. Its music only and! The gentleman Tao Tao, left to hold the plume, right to recruit me by Ao. His joy is only and!" It is about the happy scene and joyful mood of the laboring people, who sing and dance with musical instruments in their hands after their hard work. I think the poem "Junzi Yangyang" is also a vivid portrayal of Yicheng Flower Drum. The performance fully expresses the joy of the people after their labor and on the day of the festival, as well as the joyful scenes.
May the flower of Yicheng flower drum become more and more colorful!