Wude Town drum, also known as auspicious drum, has a history of more than 300 years. It was founded during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty and incorporated into the local popular martial arts routines, making the content more colorful and the number of instruments played more. There are ten drums in total, with as many as 160 performers; the scene is magnificent, the artistic style is simple and elegant, and it is majestic and majestic. The melody is varied and exciting. The band's ceremonial guards are orderly with dragon and phoenix banners, and the big red gauze lanterns are gorgeous and dazzling, with distinct folk characteristics of the Central Plains. The inheritance pedigree is clear, and there are as many as 11 teams passed down from generation to generation. Basic characteristics Its basic characteristics can be summarized as: heavy cultural connotation, regional characteristics of the score, bold and beautiful melody, strong public participation, music academic research, and mass folk culture value. However, at present, there is a lack of artists, lack of funds, and performances are in trouble. Wude Town drum is spread in Wude Town Village and surrounding villages in Wen County. After being passed down from generation to generation, it has become a unique folk music performance form for local people to participate in festivals, temple fairs and other cultural activities. Wude Town drum-lifting, also known as auspicious drum, was created in the early years of Emperor Qianlong's reign in the Qing Dynasty, and has a history of more than 300 years. In the late Qing Dynasty, some martial arts routines were incorporated into the drum-lifting performance, making the content richer, the form more diverse, the scale more grand, and the spread area more extensive. Every year at the local temple fair, dozens of drum teams from Wude Town, Wuzhi Wangshun, Zhoujiazhuang, etc. gather together to show their style and create a warm and peaceful festive atmosphere. There are nine drum performances, which are created based on the natural philosophy of the five sounds (gong, shang, jiao, zhi, and yu) in Chinese culture, the five directions (east, south, west, north, and center), and the yin and yang and five elements (gold, wood, water, fire, and earth). Each performance is a self-contained system with its own characteristics, and it always runs through the auspicious atmosphere of the three yangs opening the door to good fortune, implying auspiciousness every month and every year. The performances are intertwined, continuous, and endless, reflecting the Buddhist idea of "nine nines return to one". In terms of playing style, the Wude Town drum-lifting changed the original traditional playing style of one person and one drum, single-player single-click, to a new playing style of two people and one drum, double-lifting, which gives people a refreshing feeling and stands out in my country's percussion music. The Wude Town drum-lifting performance team is huge, with hundreds of people at least and two hundred people at most. The dancing crowd can be hundreds or thousands, and the scene is magnificent. There are many playing instruments, including drum-lifting, cymbals, horse gongs, small cloud gongs, etc., which sound like thunder and dragon roars, and are majestic and magnificent. The melody is fast and slow in order, with successive crazes, strong and powerful, and exciting. The artistic style is simple and elegant, profound and dignified. In the old days, eight fire guns opened the way for the daytime, and the band's ceremonial guards led the way with colorful dragon and phoenix banners. At night, when the drums were played, the big red gauze lanterns were gorgeous and colorful, which added to the festive atmosphere. It has distinct Central Plains folk characteristics and has high music academic research and mass folk culture value. Cultural Development Wude Town's drum-lifting has gone through many vicissitudes, but the drum music score has been passed down intact. However, few people understand or even know the philosophy of the I Ching Bagua, Yin and Yang, Five Elements, Buddhism and Taoism contained in the music score. During the war, the society was in turmoil, and the precious heritage of drum-lifting was destroyed and in an extremely paralyzed state. After liberation, Wude Town and Village purchased performance equipment and trained personnel again, creating a new situation for drum-lifting. Huang Zhanli, the successor of Wude Town's drum-lifting, said: "There are only four or five successors of the drum-lifting in our village, and they are all old. We need to cultivate new talents to pass on the artistic treasures left by 0 and carry them forward." In recent years, Wude Town's drum-lifting has participated in many provincial and municipal festivals and cultural performances. In 2006, it participated in the Henan Province Spring Full of Central Plains Cultural Temple Fair program performance, in 2007, it participated in the Jiaozuo City Excellent Program Performance, and in February 2007, it participated in the provincial intangible cultural heritage performance. In March 2007, Wude Town's drum-lifting was selected as the first batch of intangible cultural heritage in Henan Province. At present, Wude Town's drum-lifting is applying for national intangible cultural heritage. (No pictures yet, welcome to provide.) (No pictures yet, welcome to provide.)