Hancheng Xinggu, commonly known as "Kuai Guzi", is a kind of Han music and dance popular in Hancheng City, Shaanxi Province. It is now the second batch of national intangible cultural heritage protection projects in my country. Hancheng Xinggu has a long history. It is said that after the Yuan Dynasty destroyed the Jin Dynasty, Mongolian knights beat gongs and drums in Hancheng to celebrate their victory. The people of Hancheng followed and imitated it, and it became folk drum music. In traditional performances, drummers all wear helmets and saddle-covering skirts. When beating the drums, they lie on their backs and squat on horses, imitating the divine posture of Mongolian knights. Hancheng Xinggu was also a drum music for worshiping gods in history, so the drummers have an additional sacred yellow jacket. Farmers who suffer on weekdays only feel the dignity of being a human being when they beat gongs and drums, with a sloped helmet on their heads and a yellow jacket on their bodies. A sense of sacredness arises spontaneously. According to the artists, beating gongs and drums is like changing a person: the lame is no longer lame, the deaf is no longer deaf, and the rheumatic waist does not hurt no matter how hard it is beaten. It is really the so-called possession of gods, unity of man and god, and full of "god" spirit. There are more than 20 kinds of drum scores for Hancheng Xinggu, which are collected in the book "Hancheng Folk Music Data Collection" compiled by Hancheng Cultural Center. Its typical drum scores include "Tiger Grinding Teeth", "Ding Geba", "Stomachache", "Uphill", "Walking Gong and Drum", "Duan Luozi", "Si Guzi", "Picking Beans" and more than ten other kinds, some of which express momentum and some express skills. "Tiger Grinding Teeth" is a drummer using a drumstick to spin the iron nails on the edge of the drum, making a sound similar to the hungry beast grinding its teeth, which is realistic and skillful. "Uphill" is a technique used by the drum team to strike together and the drum and cymbals separately. Its style is rough and bold, with a huge momentum and grandeur, reaching the pinnacle, reflecting a simple, warm and powerful Yellow River and loess style. While retaining the original military drum music art style, Hancheng Xinggu keeps pace with the times, especially in the artistic effect of the performance, which has been deeply processed to enhance the grand momentum. During the performance, Hancheng drumming is always accompanied by "circling poles", which is to create a better atmosphere and enhance the visual effect. Girls in gorgeous clothes, wearing sunglasses, holding long winding poles decorated with colorful silk bouquets and strings of silver bells, are graceful and elegant. The formation of the winding poles echoes the formation of the gong and drum team, combining masculinity and femininity, giving people a rich enjoyment of beauty. After its formation in the Yuan Dynasty, Hancheng Xinggu has developed over such a long period of time and has formed the following basic characteristics: (1) It is dependent on folk customs as it develops with folk activities; (2) It inherits the style of the ancient Mongolian soldier band and has national characteristics; (3) The instruments of Hancheng Xinggu have a simple and rustic beauty, thus forming its simplicity; (4) The richness and diversity of the drum beats are reflected in the expression content and the music score; (5) The performance style is extremely rough, bold and sturdy; (6) The addition of flower poles increases the visual effect in terms of personnel, color and dynamics; (7) Men and women of different ages have joined the gong and drum team, making it widely participatory.