Information about Ansai Waist Drums Introduction to Ansai Waist Drums

1. Ansei Waist Drum is a traditional folk dance of Shaanxi Province. The performance can be carried out by several people or thousands of people together, majestic momentum, exquisite performance is intoxicating, known as the world's first drum. 1996, Yan'an City, Ansai District was named by the State Ministry of Culture as the hometown of Chinese waist drum.

2, May 20, 2006, Ansai waist drum approved by the State Council included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list. The form and development of Ansai waist drum is inseparable from the local historical and geographical environment and folk customs. Ansai District is located in the north of Yan'an City, Shaanxi Province, with a vast area, gullies and ravines, and the Yan River meandering through the territory, which is a typical loess plateau landscape.

3, the waist drum is a traditional form of drumming widely spread throughout northern Shaanxi, especially in Ansei County in Yan'an, Yulin Hengshan, Mibi and other places in the region is most prevalent, is one of the Shaanxi folk dance with a greater impact, Ansei waist drum originated in Yulin Hengshan, in the late Ming Dynasty, due to the plague and the farmers' revolts, Ansei has been sparsely populated, Ansei people moved from Yulin Hengshan, but also to the Hengshan, also brought the waist drums of Hengshan to Ansai.