Unique and Ancient Musical Instruments of the Deang: Water Drums

Most of China's ethnic minorities are able to sing and dance, and the Deang people are no exception; they are able to sing songs of their own ethnic characteristics off the top of their heads as they labor, and they are also able to use musical instruments. Water is also one of the ethnic characteristics of the Deang. The following Deang culture brings you the origin of the water drums.

The source of the water drum

Water drums, in the folklore, there are also rumors of anecdotes! It is said that the De'ang people from ancient times lived in the motherland border spit Yunnan in the mountains in the primitive forest. In the labor, they found the hollow wood, after the rain accumulated water, accidentally touched when issued ping-pong, ping-pong music sound, very good. In addition, they used to carry the living water of the large bamboo tube, also has the same sound. For a long time, they are in the heavy labor, pick up the stick for music, unique sound, listen to very happy. And rumor has it that, in ancient times, De'ang a pair of young men and women love each other, female beauty and tenderness, male kindness and courage, are very capable.

One day, they went up the mountain to cut firewood, the female due to thirst went to the side of a small mountain stream to drink a few mouths of water, somehow, suddenly turned into a tree on a very bright and colorful good-looking fruit, very strange. The man waited for half an hour, do not see the woman turned, rushed to find, not see the woman, but only see the tree this a beautiful fruit, he was very sad, only to pick this fruit to take home.

But on the way, a time of bad wind and rain, came a monster, the lad knocked over to the ground, brightly colored when the fruit was snatched away. When the young man woke up, has disappeared monster and fruit. He made a prompt decision, not afraid of the hardships and dangers to catch up, after being the waves of the sea blocked the way. The young man was anxious to cry, crying touched the river, pedestrians, even the stone lions have shed tears of sympathy. Everyone helped the young man to build a bridge, but somehow it collapsed after two

three times in a row. Later, the young man about the crowd to check, ah, it turned out that under the bridge pier there is a big crab in the strange trouble, they will be a big crab to catch the shore, peeled the skin, the meat eaten. Later, the crab skin taut sun in the tree, in order to punish it, the skin is not sun-dried on someone to knock it, just a knock on the ping pong music.

The bridge was finally built, and the young man, with the help of the crowd, defeated the monster and retrieved the brightly colored fruit. They used a kind of hollow tung tree to make the body of the drum, and made a water drum by covering it with the skin of a big crab.

Percussion instrument: water drum

Later, the Deang people made a real percussion instrument, the water drum. The drum body is hollowed out with slightly soft wood, painted with patterns on the surface, forming a drum surface with a large and small head, and the two ends are covered with cowhide, and then strangled with oxbows. Before playing the water drum, from a hole in the middle of the drum body to pour one or two pounds of water or wine into the drum to wet the drum skin, drum heart, and then the remaining water or wine and then poured out.

After wetting the water drum, its **** sound unique characteristics, good to hear, so it is called water drums, that is, the De'ang drums. And then that is to become the Deang cross-body beat dancing with the main musical instruments. For more ethnic customs and culture and other knowledge, welcome to the Chinese traditional culture network.