Category. Ansai drums can be divided into two kinds of drums and martial arts drums from playing hair; from the performance form is divided into road drums, venue drums and stage drums three kinds.
1. Wen Drum Wen Drum is mainly twisted, heavy twisting light beat. When the performance reaches its climax, the drum arrow is lifted upside down, and the movement is smooth and delicate, soft and lively. Twisting in the dance, dance contains twisting, accompanied by the cheerful suona sound, the inner joy of the "energy" to express out, so that people look at the heart happy.
2. Wudu Wudu is mainly playing and kicking, heavy beating and light twisting, the action is difficult, strenuous movement, especially the neatness of the action and the sense of rhythm. At the same time, a good martial arts drum not only to superb skills to win the favor of the audience, but also in the art of modeling on the unique to fascinating. A person's waist drumming how to play, the drum is the main standard to measure his technical superiority. The artistry of Ansai Waist Drums is also mainly reflected in the martial arts drums. As a whole, the formation changes must be neat and consistent, to achieve the fast release and fast recovery, changes in the speed, the action requires robust and powerful, natural and generous, cheerful and smooth, rigid and soft, rigid and soft.
3. Road drums, also known as "marching drums", "street drums". It is a drum team in the process of marching performance form, line-based, combined with the line. The action is simple and clear, mainly with hands wrapped around the waist, running and jumping steps, cross steps, inverted kicks, chicken pecking, etc. The formation has single crossing, double crossing, and double crossing. The formations are single street, double street, twisted twist, garlic braid, date core chaotic blossom and so on. Sometimes according to the need, but also for a short fixed performance, group a pattern to make a scene, but the time should not be long.
4. site drums in the square or the designated location of the performance form, is the main body of the Ansai waist drum performance. This performance, rich in content, diverse forms. Before the performance, the first to kick the field. According to the need to perform the size of the venue, around the field kicking and beating a circle, will be surrounded by people back, empty field: field expansion is good, the waist drum team in the umbrella under the leadership of the head, from the southeast, west, north and west of the four directions for the queue waist drum performance. First worship the four directions (the actors collectively make salute movements to the audience), and then the formal performance. The program includes rolling cabbage, swinging the tail of the green dragon, walking on a big field, and playing a small field. When playing small field, there are 2 people fighting, 4 people fighting, 8 people fighting, and harrier turn, three steps without landing, put the fork and other actions. At this time on the field are the head of the road drummer, they are neat, consistent and flexible movements, valiant.
5. Stage drums are a few drummers on the stage in the form of centralized performance. Performances, the number of 8 to 12 people ranging from short, concise content, high technical requirements. Stage arrangement pattern and the square pattern is also very different, the square group is a flat map, while the stage group is a side map or three-dimensional map. The two performances are also different, the square performance is from simple to complex, from shallow to deep, and gradually pushed to the climax, while the stage performance is directly or quickly into the theme of the formation of the climax, is a short period of time for the centralized performance.
Evolution
The Dictionary (1 9 79 edition of the Shanghai Rhetoric Publishing House) explains the waist drum in this way: "Strike the musical instrument, the ancient and modern forms are different. Ancient waist drums, according to the Chen Calendar, "Book of Music": "Large tile and small wood, all wide head and slender belly. Sui and Tang dynasties, used in Xijing, Guzi, Shule, Gaochang music, Qin hanging on the waist, with two palms beat. Today's waist drum, frame with wooden, long, small ends and thicker in the waist, both sides of the skin, used for folk waist drumming. Played with a silk belt drum, tied to the waist of the dancers, each hand holds a drumstick alternately playing, and accompanied by dance movements. The first prevalent in the northern Shaanxi Revolutionary base, popular after the liberation of the country."
Waist drums, a percussion instrument, with the development of history, the role is also constantly evolving. From the Spring and Autumn and Warring States of the transmission of information to the Qin Dynasty to help the war instrumental music, and then developed into a joyful celebration of victory entertainment instrumental music. Into the 80's, the performance of the waist drum and twisting rice-planting songs, turn nine blue (turn the lamp), dancing silk, running bamboo horse, playing fan, stilt walkers, the king's whip and so on into one. Most of the collective performance, can also be performed individually. Waist drum has not only celebrated the victory, and become a major holiday entertainment, the most solemn but also counted on New Year's Day and the Spring Festival. Ansai waist drum in the long-term performance process, continuous innovation, and gradually dance, martial arts, gymnastics, percussion, wind music, folk songs, etc., into one, forming a Huangtu culture through the past and present of a unique style of folk skills.