CCTV News: Every Spring Festival, the powerful gongs and drums in southern Shanxi will resound through the mountains, fields and villages. As the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage in my country, the gongs and drums not only have a long history of more than 4,000 years, but also have a broad mass base. In Linfen Huozhou alone, more than 20,000 people are skilled in the powerful gongs and drums. So why are so many people who like the mighty drums? Today (January 21) "Travel to Culture in China" lets us follow the camera to learn about this folk percussion that has been circulated for thousands of years.
In the past few days, the men, women, young and old in Huozhou, Shanxi Province, after the busy farming, could not control their love for the mighty gongs and drums. They gathered together, playing the drums and gongs, preparing for the upcoming Spring Festival performance.
Zhang Yong, who has been engaged in the performing arts and research of Weifeng Gongs and Drums for more than 30 years, is a representative inheritor of Weifeng Gongs and Drums national-level intangible cultural heritage in southern Shanxi. He told reporters that the Weifeng Gonggong was originally called "gonggonggong", commonly known as "guy", and was mainly distributed in Linfen City, Shanxi Province and counties such as Huozhou and Fushan.
It is understood that Weifeng Gong and Drum is a percussion art form played by four instruments: gong, drum, cymbal and cymbal. It has rich content and diverse forms, integrating music, dance and skills. The powerful and agile posture, rough and bold personality, and vigorous momentum of the mighty gong and drum performers reflect the generous and unrestrained character of the northern man living on the Loess Plateau.
The passionate drum beats and heroic rhythms, the majestic gongs and drums not only show the unique charm of this ancient folk art, but also convey the vigorous and upward spirit of the people and play the happy music of a better life in the new era. At the same time, gong and drum artists in southern Shanxi have been constantly innovating and developing the mighty gong and drum. On the basis of retaining the traditional performance style, they incorporate modern music elements and dance choreography to make the majestic gongs and drums more contemporary and ornamental, and with the help of new media and new technologies, they can pass on the majestic gongs and drums to a longer and wider.
