The Spirit of Spinning Drums

Drums, is China's traditional culture of a wonderful, and handed down to date a variety of dance about the drum, but also all over the Chinese land, such as the famous Shaanxi Ansai waist drums, Anhui Fengyang's flower drums, Shanxi Jinbei's drums and so on. But have you ever seen the distinctive Quanzhou rotary drum dance?

Rotary drums, as the name suggests, are drums that rotate. How does the drum rotate? Originally, it is a long, thin wooden stick that runs through the belly of a small, flat, round drum. In the shape of a phi, the dancer holds the ends of the stick in each hand and gently rotates the flat drum. Dancing and spinning at the same time, the movement is novel and the dance is very beautiful and touching. The changing formation, the rotating flat drum and the colorful and varied dance postures are fascinating and interesting. Rotating drums keep turning and flying, which is indeed refreshing. This is in the country in various forms of drum dance, belongs to a rare species.

Rotary drum dance, also known as the drum dance, according to the test, is the ancient Quanzhou people from the "Water Margin" Liang Shan Po good guy disguised in the story of the story adapted from the dance. During the performance, the dancers dress up as Lu Zhishen, Shi Xiu, Sun Erniang, Gu Daqian, Shiqian and other roles, dance and play music at the same time, showing that all the heroes tricked the guards and soldiers to blend into the city. The number of performers are mostly men and women in pairs, *** 8 to 10 people, each hand holding a rotary drum Nanyin percussion instrument, dancing while traveling, the atmosphere is warm and cheerful, interesting.

In 1990, Jinjiang Anhai Yangzheng Primary School excavated and sorted out this excellent traditional folk art of Quanzhou on the verge of being lost, and created a unique spinning drum dance, which was selected to participate in the first Fujian Arts Festival, won the first prize for the performance. Their performance was broadcasted by Fujian TV and CCTV, which made more people appreciate this unique ancient art in Quanzhou culture. In 1992, Fujian Provincial Song and Dance Drama Theater launched a large-scale dance drama "Silk Sea xiao yin", which shows the history of the Maritime Silk Road in Quanzhou, there is also a section of beautiful spinning drum dance, which is considered by many viewers to be one of the most striking and outstanding dances in the whole drama with many dances rich in the characteristics of Quanzhou.