Zhenhai Dragon Drum is to draw on the essence of the local traditional dragon dance and gongs and drums by reorganizing, combining, and creating a large scene, great momentum at the same time, but also rich in the marine style of the new folk performing arts varieties. It was first created in 1999, won the gold medal of Zhejiang Province Square Dance Competition in 2000, and was awarded the "Juyongguan Great Wall Cup Chinese Drum Dance Competition Mountain Flower Award" and other awards of Chinese folk arts and culture in 2001.
Zhenhai Dragon Drum performance, according to the need to decide the length of the performance and the number of people. The team can be up to a hundred people, or as few as 40 or 50 people can also.
The Zhenhai Dragon Drum is an innovation from the traditional dragon dance and gongs and drums. Its main form of performance for the dragon drum 2, each 113 sections, divided into drums, combined into a dragon, another 14 large, medium and small Beijing drums, red drums and timpani (of which the largest red drum diameter of 1.6 meters), but also large, medium and small gongs and cymbals 54 (face) vice. During the performance, the drums are used as a guide, and the gongs and cymbals sound in unison, or they flip and run around in the shape of a long dragon, or they change with the rhythm of the gongs and drums to make various changes in formation. In the early days, only one person sang in the Jiaochuan book walking, no musical accompaniment, and no backyard and singing, the artist only used two wine cups, a bamboo chopsticks, rhythmic beat, and sang and sang themselves.
On the eve of the Anti-Japanese War, it gradually evolved into a form of singing and singing, in temples, ancestral halls or sunbathing sites with wooden planks built into a small platform, the singers began to use the quiet wood, paper fans, handkerchiefs, etc. as small props, accompaniment has changed to use the bamboo boards, bamboo drums to beat out the rhythm of the boards and in the fall of the tune with a clear mouth and "hey hey mile ah.... ..." of the basic tune.
On the eve of the victory in the war, it began to use the erhu, yangqin and other musical instruments for accompaniment.
After the liberation, it developed into a multi-file form, sometimes accompanied by a variety of instruments such as pipa, sanxian, xiao, flute and so on.
The Jiaochuan Walking Book is one of the local performing arts of Ningbo, which is rich in local flavor and unique in style. Tracing back the origin, according to the old Jiaochuan walking book artists oral tradition, about the Guangxu period, a live in Zhenhai County small south door named Xie A Shu (also known as Xie Yuanhong) Jiaochuan walking book artists, because of the residence of the small south door arched wall carved with the word "Jiaochuan," the name, called "Jiaochuan walking book. "
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