Fengyang Flower Drum is also called Flower Drum, Playing Flower Drum, Flower Drum Gong and Double Drum. Fengyang Flower Drum originated in Linhuai County (now east of Fengyang County), and it is a kind of Han folk performing art that integrates folk art and song and dance.
Fengyang Flower Drum is the most important and outstanding rap performance in Quyi form, accompanied by one or two boastful drums and gongs, singing and dancing. In history, artists used this as a means to go out and beg, and Fengyang Flower Drum spread all over the country. Representative tracks include Fengyang songs, coloratura, Sister Wang's fair, Miao songs and so on.
Performance mode
The performance form of Fengyang Flower Drum is that one or two people play their own drums and gongs to accompany them, dancing and singing. A man and a woman played a small gong, and a woman played a small flower drum, sometimes accompanied by musical instruments. Fengyang flower drum can be divided into big flower drum and small gong flower drum.
Generally speaking, the big flower drum is performed by more than a dozen people collectively, which has a strong sense of rhythm and can present a happy atmosphere. In the process of playing Dahuagu, folk songs are usually played.
Small gongs and flower drums, also known as flower drums and small gongs, are usually performed by two people, one is responsible for beating drums and the other is responsible for beating gongs. In the past, people usually begged with flower drums and small gongs, but later, small gongs and flower drums continued to spread and began to perform on the stage.