Jingyun Drum (Shaobai School)
Jingyun Dagu (Shaobai School) is an important branch of Jingyun Dagu. Its basic performance form is the same as Jingyun Dagu, with one person standing and singing and beating the drum to control the rhythm. The main accompaniment instruments are the big three-stringed instrument, the four-stringed instrument and the pipa, and sometimes the low-stringed instrument. Jingyun Dagu (Shaobai School) was founded in the early years of the Republic of China. The main founders were Bai Fengyan (1899-1975) and Bai Fengming (1909-1980). In the 15th year of the Republic of China (1926), Bai Fengyan, on the basis of inheriting all the Liu School singing segments personally taught by Liu Baoquan, began to innovate Jingyun Dagu. He spent three years to adapt and create more than ten new pieces of music, and taught his younger brother Bai Fengming to sing according to his voice and artistic style. Later, he performed in Tianjin and became a hit. He appropriately added new musical materials to the accompaniment, and established his own unique singing style with the "three new" achievements of new repertoire, new music and new actors. Bai Fengyan's accompaniment was also praised as "shaking the world". Jingyun Drum (Shaobai School) has a distinctive artistic style: first, it has its own repertoire, "Beheading Hua Xiong", "Fighting in Daizhou", "Beating the Drum and Cursing Cao", "Seven Star Lanterns", "Crying at the Ancestral Temple" and other famous repertoires of the Shaobai School; second, it has new musical singing styles, creating a new style of desolate and tragic grandeur; third, it has a personal style of accompaniment, that is, according to the content of the singing segment, new musical materials are used in Jingyun Drum. Jingyun Drum (Shaobai School) has high artistic value, social value and folk value. Its singing style is beautiful, graceful and undulating, stretched and smooth, with strong timbre contrast, giving people a beautiful enjoyment; the lyrics are numerous, vulgar and elegant, which can arouse people's appreciation and aftertaste, and is a precious sample for studying drum music art. Jingyun Drum (Shaobai School) is a representative project of intangible cultural heritage in Shijingshan District, and has been applied for as a representative project of Beijing-level intangible cultural heritage. (No pictures yet, welcome to provide.) (No pictures yet, welcome to provide.)