The best prestige gongs and drums team in Shanxi

Shanxi's intangible heritage: the majestic gongs and drums in southern Shanxi and the magnificent folk percussion performances.

The earliest name of prestige gongs and drums is "gongs and drums", which is commonly known as "guy" by ordinary people. It is an ensemble form of folk percussion instruments. It is also called "awe-inspiring" because of its bright rhythm and majestic majesty, which makes people feel terrible whether they look or listen. "Power and prestige gongs and drums" is a folk percussion performance art with the greatest fame, influence, spread and vitality among many gongs and drums in Linfen area. The majestic gongs and drums have a broad mass base. Almost every county and city in Linfen has its own gongs and drums team and its own "gongs and drums song". There is a local folk proverb: "I am happy but I am married, I am busy but I beat gongs and drums."

The generation of drums is probably because ancient humans were moved by the sounds of nature, such as thunder, stone rolling, collision of empty objects and so on. Imitate the grandeur, majesty and vastness of their voices. In ancient China, there was a record that "drums ruled the sky and bells ruled the land". 1980, the Miao drum was first discovered in a tomb in Taosi, Xiangfen County, which is known as the "first drum in China", proving that gongs and drums were made about 4,000 years ago; In Oracle Bone Inscriptions, there is already the word "drum". In the Spring and Autumn Period, the names of drum music began to be scattered in the records of various ancient literature and history books, such as "admonition drum and thunder drum", which indicated that drums had begun to take shape at that time.