Representative Works of Hebei Drum and Blow Music

Historical Inheritance

Yongnian Drum and Blow Music is the most representative of Hebei Jidongnan Drum and Blow Music, and it is one of the most influential Han instrumental music genres in Hebei Province.

Legend has it that when Dou Jiande, the leader of the insurgent army at the end of the Sui Dynasty, built his capital and claimed the throne in Yongnian, there was already drumming music in the army and the Han Chinese folklore. After the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the drumming and blowing music became more mature and prosperous. Qing Guangxu years compiled "Yongnian County Records (Customs)" recorded that the Han folk wedding rituals used in large numbers, passed down from generation to generation. 1970s, in the urban and rural mass cultural activities, drumming and blowing music this art is still very prosperous.

Playing and repertoire

Yongnian Drum and Blow Music is played in a variety of ways, mainly blowing music, percussion and click theater three. It has a rich repertoire, including miscellaneous songs, sets of songs and blowing three kinds of clicks, the existing repertoire of more than 200 songs, more than 50 kinds of songs, many of which are unique to Yongnian. Its playing style is rough and warm, cheerful and lively, with distinctive regional characteristics. The common repertoire includes "One Flower", "Too Quotidian", "Small Donkey", "Daiteng Temple", "Sedan Chair", "Big Donkey" and so on. repertoire

Ning Drum and Blow music repertoire is numerous, there are fourteen sets of cards, a small song race cow hair said. Existing music songs have Yangge song, big brand song, Han blowing song, flower blowing song, miscellaneous songs and other five categories **** more than two hundred. Commonly used tunes include "Full House", "Sentence Double", "Liu Qingniang", "Little Mill House", "Embroidered Red Lantern", "Old Official Tunes" and so on.

Features and Inheritance

Funing Drum and Blow Music is very unique in its instrumental form, with different kinds of suona as its main instruments, as well as click bowls used for click theater, harmonica used in flower blowing, and many other commonly used instruments. Funing Drum and Blow Music is played in a variety of ways and with unique techniques, such as on the line, adding flowers, becoming a word, flower tongue, trembling fingers, three strong sound, color change, etc. There are also three sections of suona playing the plucking of three sections and don't put and string blowing, etc. The blowing is organically combined with the performance of physical movements, and the style of playing is rough and strong, lively and interesting, warm and witty, and it has a rich local flavor. Fanning Drum and Blow Music is mainly used for weddings, funerals, festivals and folk dances, and has always been popular among the masses. It is passed on to the family, godfamily worship and apprenticeship in three ways to inheritance, generations of talents gathered, famous artists, many musicians have young people learning the art of their hometowns, the adult sells the art of the Lower Guandong, late in life to pass the art back to their hometowns, the Guanwai Guanwai passes on the fame of the experience of the art.

Situation

Funing Drum and Blow Music is rich in content, with distinctive regional cultural characteristics and important historical and artistic value. In recent years, due to a variety of reasons, Yongnian Drum and Blow Music and Fanning Drum and Blow Music are in a shrinking, lack of successors in the endangered state, urgent rescue, protection.

The state attaches great importance to the protection of intangible cultural heritage, on May 20, 2006, Hebei Drum and Blow Music was approved by the State Council to be included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list.