The Jinnan Wei Feng gongs and drums are known as "the first drums in the world", which are favored by many people and have various social functions, and are rich in unique natural characteristics, majestic, impassioned, rough and bold, and powerful. Most of the themes expressed in the performance of the gongs and drums are the fragments of the people's life, and the ingenious performers record the familiar sights, events, sounds, and current interests of the masses through the popular art of gongs and drums, playing the voices of the people, and triggering a high degree of ****songs. As the best of the traditional folk art, the Wei Feng gongs and drums are integrated with music, dance and skills, and have high aesthetic and artistic value.
The era endowed Weifeng gongs and drums with good fortune, at the end of the 1980s in this century, within a few years, many times to participate in the province, the national and the world's major performances. The reform and development of the gongs and drums has been greatly promoted, and they have made a qualitative leap and evolved into today's brand-new appearance. It has performed in Beijing three times and gained great fame. Once in 1988 at the first National Farmers' Games, once in 1989 in Tiananmen Square, to celebrate the fortieth anniversary of the National Day special cultural evening, "I love you - China" video performance, and again, in 1990, in the world's attention on the eleventh Asian Games. The three performances shocked the capital, the whole country and friends from all over the world. The Wei Feng gongs and drums became an art form representing the prestige of the Chinese nation. Chinese and foreign cultural celebrities and journalists have written comments, praising the Wei Feng gongs and drums as "the excellent cultural heritage of the Chinese nation's traditions", "the premier national drums and music in ancient and modern times and at home and abroad", "the soul of the Yellow River" and "the amazing drums and drums".
Weilongilong gongs and drums are the "excellent cultural heritage of the Chinese nation's tradition", "the first national drum music in ancient and modern times and in other countries", "the soul of the Yellow River", "the treasure of the world", "the first drum of China", "the first drum in the world".
The mighty gongs and drums are integrated with music rhythm, dance and skills, and the performers' strong and robust posture, rough and bold style and vigorous momentum reflect the bold and unrestrained character of the northern Han people on the Loess Plateau. It is a fine product in the treasure trove of Chinese Han traditional arts, and has won awards for many times in large-scale celebrations at home and abroad, which has shaken the world. The historical inheritance, performance content and performance form of the Wei Feng gongs and drums are one of the important subjects of concern in history, sociology, folklore, aesthetics and other disciplines. The trajectory of its historical evolution reflects the development of the traditional ideology and aesthetic consciousness of the Chinese nation; the development of its art form reflects the character traits of the northern peoples and the ideal pursuit of unity and harmony.
For a long time, "Weifeng gongs and drums" have been very popular in the local area, and its scope of use has also been limited to the activities of rituals and remembrance of ancestors within the tribe in the past, and expanded to daily life in the wedding, festival celebrations, and sometimes in winter, people also have to play the gongs and drums to celebrate the harvest in high spirits. Therefore, "Weifeng gongs and drums" have become an important form of mass culture for people's growing cultural needs, not only in the village and the town, but also in foreign countries and towns to invite people to take part in festivals and ceremonial activities, which is very important for the construction of spiritual civilization in the village (town) and even in Liuzhou, enriching the cultural life of the masses, improving the quality of the masses, promoting the comprehensive development of the people, constructing a new socialist countryside, and building a new socialist countryside. Since 1988, Shanxi's Wei Feng gongs and drums from the Agricultural Games to the Asian Games, from the provincial city of the Folk Art Festival to the 40th anniversary of Tiananmen Square, really hit the Shanxi folk art of the prestige of the wind, reputation of the whole country, reputation of the world.