Drum Rice-planting Song

Drum Rice-planting Song is a folk dance in Shandong Province. It originated in Shanghe County, Jinan, and has a history of more than 2,000 years. It is an art form in which people sing and dance to celebrate a good harvest. Every year, the Lantern Festival is the climax of the Drum Rice-planting Song performances. Since the drums are a multi-person, well-organized activity, the action is always magnificent and makes people's hearts boil.

Drum rice-planting song is commonly known locally as "run (haunted) fifteen", "haunted play", set song and dance juggling in a, is the Han Dynasty, "Hundred Plays" continuation. Folk activities on the seventh night of the first month of ancestor worship, the official start of the eighth, seventeen night umbrella, before and after ten days, of which fifteen, sixteen, seventeen three days for the climax. Shanghe County Records" recorded the city "run fifteen" scene: "the country has been Xingyi ecstatic, Xinzheng fourteen hanging clothes, tomorrow morning, but I hope there is no snow and wind, try to show off the talent to make a scene," "is the day of the women gathered, the way to the plug, since the morning to the twilight! From morning to nightfall, there was an endless stream of people." "Rural people rows and households play fishing, reading, plowing and woodcutting plays, wine feasts and songs to compete for the party, where three nights." Rural areas according to their own conditions, a number of forms of literature and art together, focusing on the performance of umbrella drum dance, dancers do not sing, singers do not dance, this "hundred plays" form of self-indulgent activities, under specific historical conditions, borrowing simple props, skills passed down from ancestors, the repressed emotions, in a reasonable and legal space and time, will not usually say, do not dare to say, can not say the words, nestled in the heart of the sweet, sour, bitter and spicy.

Today, in front of the store, I had the honor of seeing the drums of my hometown, which was magnificent and inspiring.

Probably because my daughter was sick, I pushed open the door and heard the ear-splitting drums, and I actually shed a tear myself. Life is really interesting, you never know what will happen in the next moment, I did not know that my daughter would be sick today, and I did not know that I would be lucky enough to encounter such a wonderful performance today.

Life is really interesting, we never know what will happen in the next moment, sweet and sour, constituting the hundred flavors of life.