Background information about Ansai Waist Drums

Ansei Waist Drum" is a famous piece of prose by Mr. Liu Chengzhang, which was first published in People's Daily - Earth Supplement on October 3, 1986, and later selected in many prose anthologies; in 1996, it was included in the prose collection "Sheep Thinking of Clouds" published by Workers' Publishing House, and won the first Lu Xun Literature Prize - Prize for Prose. (This collection of essays won the first "Lu Xun Literature Prize-Prose Award"). At present, it has been selected for inclusion in secondary school textbooks.

"Ansai waist drums" is a unique regional cultural phenomenon of the northern Shaanxi plateau, but also a symbol of the spirit of the northern Shaanxi people and symbols, and all this is related to the ancient history of northern Shaanxi. Northern Shaanxi Plateau is connected to the Central Plains agricultural and grassland nomadic peoples of the important channel, since ancient times is the border: the Qin Shi Huang period of General Mengtian, the rate of 300,000 troops guarding the northern Shaanxi, building the Great Wall, repair the straight road, to prevent the Xiongnu invasion; Northern Song Dynasty Han Qi, Fan Zhongyan, Shen Kuo and other generation of military generals, ministers came to the northern Shaanxi, led the war to resist the invasion of the Xixia people; and one of the nine towns of the Ming Dynasty, "Yansui Township". "Yan Sui Town" Great Wall, almost assumed more than half of the defense of the northern border in the middle and late Ming Dynasty. It can be said that "Ansai Waist Drum" is not only the horn that inspired the border generals to charge and kill the enemy and fight in blood in ancient times, but also the welcoming song for the generals to triumph in the battle. It is magnificent, it puts death before life, it is full of passion and power, it is the dance of life and carnival ...... ancient war drums sounding the scene of gold, disappeared forever. However, this in the passion and power of the ceremony, but y rooted in the ancient land of northern Shaanxi. The countryside of northern Shaanxi, the waist drum has become a form of entertainment, in the romantic venting of life's passion, in the poetic pursuit of eternal spiritual power. 20 century, with the Central Committee of the Chinese ****production party stationed in Yan'an for 13 years, as well as the victory of the Chinese Revolution, "Yan'an Spirit" to the whole country, "Ansai". Waist Drum" this original pure folk square culture form, also gradually into the temple, into the whole of China and even the whole world's vision. Far from the 1950s and 1960s, "Ansai Waist Drums" was how popular in Asia, Africa and Latin America; not to mention the early 1980s, "the fifth generation of directors" Chen Kaige hit the "yellow earth" in "Ansai Waist Drums" how to conquer the world. Not to mention the early 1980s, "the fifth generation director" Chen Kaige hit the "yellow earth" in the "Ansai waist drum" is how to conquer the hearts of the audience in Western Europe; that is, since the 1980s, many of our country's large-scale national celebrations, there are "Ansai waist drums" appearances. In a sense, "Ansai drums" released the energy, not only is the ancient yellow land of northern Shaanxi, the regional cultural information, more importantly, it has become the Chinese nation's perseverance and unyielding, spirited, vigorous and enterprising spiritual symbol. In other words, "Ansai Waist Drums" expresses the content of the poem with grand scenes, unrestrained movements, resounding rhythms, and stirring drumbeats. For the prose writer Liu Chengzhang, he was born and grew up in the yellow earth, familiar with the mountains, water, grass and trees here. More importantly, he has a deep realization of life on the plateau, his bones have a kind of plateau region unique poetic romantic feelings, and become a "singer" on the plateau of northern Shaanxi, a famous romantic poet. early 1980s, the middle-aged Mr. Liu Chengzhang, "middle-aged change of law In the early 1980s, Mr. Liu Chengzhang, in his middle age, "changed his method in his middle age", gave up the original familiar forms of poetry, lyrics and other creative forms, and found a new way of artistic creation in the form of prose. In fact, the kernel of his prose is still the romance of excitement and the melody of "Albatross". When he came to the provincial capital far away from his hometown, his mind flashed back to the magnificent scene of "Ansai Waist Drums" which broke through the years and swallowed the mountains and rivers, and the drum beats that exploded in silence on the plateau were still reverberating in his ears. In the face of the 1980s our country in the reform and opening up of the rapidly changing scene, how can he not for the heart? How can he not rejoice in it? This scene, transformed into Liu Chengzhang day-to-day sense and in "that moment presents a complex of reason and emotion things" (American imagist poet Pound), that is, "Ansai waist drums". He must use the specific imagery of the "Ansai drum" to convey his aesthetic feelings about life and the times, and to convey his poetic understanding of life!