Blue sky, white clouds, yellow soil, plateau men beat the Tai Ping, thunderbolts resound for ten thousand miles, and the clouds of the five continents rise under their feet.
This poem makes people feel as if they have heard the earth-shaking drums of Lanzhou Taiping Drums, seen the drummer's cheerful and athletic posture, and felt the momentum of the mountains pouring into the sea. Lanzhou Taiping Drum has distinctive regional characteristics and a long history. According to the legend, when Zhu Yuanzhang, the Emperor of Ming Dynasty, unified the world and became the emperor, only the general of the Yuan Dynasty, Dangguo Tiemuer, resisted in Lanzhou. Zhu Yuanzhang was very angry, in the eleventh year of Hongwu sent general Xu Da crusade to expand Gou Tiemuer. However, Lanzhou city is very dangerous and firm, and could not be attacked for a long time. A strategist suggested: "Now it is the Spring Festival, the Northwest people love to play social fire, why not make a part of the soldiers dressed as people, part of them dressed as playing social fire, mixed into the city, inside and outside, you can take Lanzhou city." Xu Da acted according to the plan, changed the end drum into a long drum, hiding the sword inside the drum. At the Lantern Festival, he pretended to be a soldier carrying a long drum diagonally, walking and playing, and mixed into the city. The next morning, Xu Da order to attack the city, a drums and horns, kill the sound of the sky, Timur just on the city floor, fiercely heard a gunshot, the city gate is wide open, the city fell. Zhu Yuanzhang unification of China, that the end of the drum to make a merit, the world peace, so named "Taiping drum". In recent years, Lanzhou Taiping Drum has been invited to participate in the Asian Games, to meet the return of Hong Kong, to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the country and other large-scale celebrations, got the "world's first drum" praise.
The Peach Blossom Festival
The Peach Blossom Festival is held in April every year when the peach blossoms are in full bloom in the Peach Garden of Anning District. This event has been held annually since 1984, when the Lanzhou Municipal People's Government organized the first Peach Blossom Festival. In addition to enjoying the flowers, tourists can also visit the rich and colorful cultural activities, calligraphy and painting exhibitions, economic and trade negotiations.
Anning District, the peach garden east of Liujiabao, west to Shajingyi, stretching 15 kilometers, an area of more than 8,000 acres, there are 184 varieties of peach trees more than 300,000 plants, including late peach, purple peach, Beijing red peach, early fragrant Yu peach, white powder peach, semi-dry peach, away from the peach honey, the June Peach and other varieties of the most famous. Peach trees are native to northwest China, with a history of more than 3,000 years. (Xijing miscellany) contained: "the Han emperor Wu Di early repair on the forest garden, the ministers offer fresh fruit, there are fine walnut peach, purple grain peach, Jincheng peach";. Jincheng Peach is the late peach produced by Anning Peach Garden, indicating that Lanzhou has been producing fresh peaches for at least two thousand years of history. In the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the scorched peaches of Lanzhou were listed as tribute. Lanzhou fresh peach fruit colorful, meat fine pink tender, sweet and juicy, taste more mellow, rich in fat, protein, fruit acids and a variety of minerals and vitamins, for the peach in the best, long time eating can prolong life.
Lanzhou's Anning Peach Garden as early as the Qing Dynasty has been watching flowers into the meeting. At that time, the flower viewers were mostly talented people and dignitaries. During the Qianlong period, Lanzhou, Lanzhou, Jiang Defu had a poem praising: "I remember Lanzhou good, when the spring fruit is enough to boast. The lights are flourishing in three cities, and the colors are scattered in a city of flowers. The blue tree urges the song board, and the fragrant dust drives the brocade car. Green grass road, everywhere wine curtain slanting". To the Ming Dynasty, with the increase of households in this area and the improvement of transportation, Anning peach blossom for all to see. Li Shaoling poem: "before and after the mountain flowers like clusters, the garden outside the garden people like jade, families busy watching the flowers, the face of the flowers to see the lack of". Whenever the flowering season, peach blossom colorful like brocade, just like the sky red haze scattered on earth, the scenery is breathtaking.
Social fire in the Spring Festival
During the Spring Festival, Lanzhou street social fire performance is unique. Generally from around the tenth day of the first month of the lunar calendar, organized by the districts and counties of the farmers' social fire team gathered in the city center, in order to form different shapes of the formation, along the main street side line dance, beating gongs and drums, lively and spectacular. When traveling to Dongfanghong Square, more around the figure, for visitors and the public performance. Social fire performance can last until around the Lantern Festival.
Lanzhou social fire team performance content is rich and colorful, the most striking is the stilt team, they wear costumes, holding a sword and gun, dressed as theater characters, feet on more than four feet high wooden stilts, accompanied by gongs and drums dance while walking. Iron core is also original, to win by trickery. They dress up children with beautiful eyes and light physique as theater characters to form a folded opera. The children tied to the iron core of the high place of the children with the vehicle carrying the slow march. The most spectacular is the Taihei Drum Corps. The drummers beat the drums rhythmically to the command of the president's flag, and the sound of the drums is exhilarating. The lion dance is mainly to see the warrior with embroidered balls to tease the lion a few clean fists and feet kung fu. Lanzhou Spring Festival fireworks are also running dry boat, unicycle, bamboo horse. Big head Luohan play Liu Cui and other programs. The team often "wind bitch" to open the way, which is with the "rain division" corresponding to the "wind aunt" image, in the myth is the Division of wind and rain God, its shape is similar to the color Dan, ugly, earlobes hanging red pepper, one hand shaking the fan, a hand with a written The shape of the god is similar to the colorful Dan, with red chili peppers hanging from his earlobes, a fan in one hand, and a diamond-shaped plaster flag with the words "wind and rain" in the other, which is twisted around with exaggerated, comical and drastic movements. Hilarious, showing the people praying for good weather, the mood and desire of the grains and stable.