Fengyang Flower Drum

Anhui
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Fengyang is located in the northeast of Anhui Province and on the south bank of the Huai River. The county's flower drum rap has a long history. During festivals, slack seasons or resting in the fields, people beat and rap anytime and anywhere. It is lively and interesting. Fengyang enjoys the title of "Hometown of Flower Drum". It is a traditional art unique to Fengyang folks and is also very influential in the country. Speaking of Fengyang Flower Drum, Fengyang people have a mixed experience of sadness and joy. Fengyang Flower Drum is also called Shuangtiao Drum. The original performance form was two sisters-in-law, one beating the drum and the other beating the gong, singing a ditty and beating between the drum and the gong. The lyrics are all sad and sorrowful: "Talking about Fengyang, talking about Fengyang, Fengyang was originally a good place, since the emergence of Emperor Zhu, there have been nine years of famine in nineteen years. Rich families sell cattle and horses, small families sell sons, slaves have no sons to sell, and carry flower drums everywhere..." In the old days, Fengyang was constantly hit by droughts, floods and famines, and many families sang flower drums and begged for a living. Fengyang Flower Drum has become a symbol of poverty and begging. After China's reform and opening up, the form and content of Fengyang Flower Drum have also changed greatly. Fengyang Flower Drum has become a tool for Fengyang people to entertain themselves. Flower drum singing has become more popular in urban and rural areas. Whenever there is a happy event or when receiving guests, Fengyang people always perform enthusiastically to express their joy. The playing method, dance steps, flower postures, singing, etc. of the flower drum have been integrated with modern singing and dancing techniques. While maintaining the strong local characteristics, the form is more lively and diverse, the atmosphere is more warm and cheerful, and the reputation of Fengyang Flower Drum is getting bigger and bigger. In recent years, Fengyang folk flower drum art groups have participated in national and provincial and municipal folk art performances and competitions many times, participated in the filming of many films and TV shows, and won awards nationwide. In recent years, Fengyang Flower Drum has also gone abroad to perform in Japan and won praise.

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